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Room D – Law, Economics, Politics
Room D offers specialized collections in Law, Political Science, Economics and Management. It seats 251 people on two levels.
Salle D - droit économie et politique © Béatrice Lucchese / BnF
It also houses two original documentary ensembles, the Resource Centre on the European Union and the Resource and Information Centre on the Business World (Pôle de ressources et d’information sur le monde de l’entreprise (PRISME)), as well as specific services such as trainings on legal databases.
Collections
Core collections focus on Law, Economics, and Politics. Room D also houses vast collections of official publications, a resource centre dedicated to the European Union and PRISME, a resource and information centre on the business world.
Law:
The most updated documentation on French Law subjects is available, as well as a collection on international and European Law. More than 300 magazines, mostly French, are available. A selection of practical law was specially designed to address daily issues.
Economics/Management:
A recent selection gathers essentially French documentation complete with some documentation in English or other common foreign languages. You may consult the classics on economic thought as well as recent studies, research and books on the economic and social current climate, the evolution of the global Economy, financial and international Economy and on Management and Accounting.
Political Science:
The collection covers all themes related to this topic: the history of political ideas, political and administrative institutions, public policy, political situation, international relations since 1945, political sociology, strategy, and defense politics.
Official publications:
Institutional, administrative and statistical publications: all indispensable resources to understand today’s world. Available on paper, they gather in room D the French, foreign and intergovernmental official publications, including the European Union.
General
A collection of basic documents (French, foreign languages and historic dictionaries, atlases etc.) to complete the resources on law, economics, political science, and a selection of general knowledge magazines.
Services offered
- Quick legal database training the first Tuesday of each month at 1:30 PM, to learn the essentials on four databases: Dalloz, Lamyline, Lexis360 and Navis (one database per month). The training sessions take place in the group room and last 30 minutes. Advance registration is possible on site or on Affluences.
- The ‘Thursday Demo’ on documentary resources for job hunting and business creation by the PRISME team every Thursday at 11 AM (in the Aquarium, Eastern Hall)
- Help with documentary research and on how to use paper and electronic collections
- Access to major databases: Dalloz, Lamyline, Lexis360, Xerfi, MarketsandMarkets, Business Source Complete, Alternatives économiques, Euromonitor, Delphes
- Group room (6 people)
- Access to the Sound, Video, Multimedia portal
Noteworthy collections
- Collection of books on exam preparation
- Theses works on microfiches
- Official publications (microfiches): Journal officiel, Bulletin des lois, Bulletin des arrêts de la cour de cassation
- Communication of French newspapers (microfilms) kept at the Research Library
- Practical law collection: documents dealing with everyday legal issues (taxes, consumer rights, co-ownership, etc.)
- The Europe resource centre gather the essential sources of information and current news on the workings of the EU
- The Pôle de ressources et d’information sur le monde de l’entreprise (PRISME) gathers a documentary collection (paper and digital) for professional use such as market studies, information on societies, professional press, and practical documents for job seekers and business creators.
