Blog and catalogs

Libraries and archives provide access to their collections both in reading rooms and remotely, through their catalogs and digital platforms. They also showcase their collections via their research notebooks.

Echoing the Collège de France's missions of disseminating research in progress and furthering that research, this institutional notebook hosted on the Hypothèses.org platform was launched in March 2017 to raise awareness of the collections and services of the libraries and archives, as well as the research being carried out on these holdings, sparking new academic research, but also providing a behind-the-scenes look at the jobs of the libraries and archives, from moving to recotation to loans of works.

Around twenty posts are published on Colligere each year, sometimes in serial form, other times as news briefs, and some are translated into English. News from Colligere is published on the Collège de France social networks.

Omnia, the library and archive collections discovery tool, simultaneously searches the libraries' printed collections (nearly 600,000 volumes), free or paying online resources, and archive documents. The collections of the Claude Lévi Strauss Anthropology Library are accessible via their catalog.

The Omnia home page provides information on the services and news of the libraries: exhibitions, publications.... A single search bar simultaneously queries all document types, and results can be sorted using facets. The search can also be performed in different languages or by voice.

Users can pre-register in one of the Collège's libraries or archives, and, thanks to their reader account, plan their arrival at the library by reserving the documents they wish to consult.

Salamandre has been developed by the archives department. This platform plays a dual role, and it is its function as an archive catalog that is presented here (for the digital library, please refer to the "digitized collections" page). As a catalog, Salamandre provides access to the detailed inventories of nearly 130 archive fonds, described in EAD standard form in a tree structure from the most general to the individual item, and to the corpus digitized since 2013.

New archival fonds are inventoried and put online each year on Salamandre, which is harvested by the Portail France Archives and whose inventories are also present in Calames.