It is said that moving is the second source of stress for the French, after divorce.
What to think then of the one that has been going on since 2010 at the BnF and will have involved 20 million volumes, objects or drawings?
“We made the choice to move the books and the collections as the work progresses, so as not to penalize the researchers and the readers who could continue to come to consult.
It was necessarily longer and more complicated
,” admits Laurence Engel, president of the BnF.
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The move, dantesque, cost more than 2 million euros.
It involved specialized carriers going back and forth between three sites - the historic one on rue de Richelieu, that of François-Mitterrand and a reserve in the Paris region - five full-time people to organize it, programs cutting-edge computers, an incalculable number of hours, finally, to put the books back on the shelves by hand.
In twelve years, the departments - reserve of…
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