Grande Bibliothèque
| Grande Bibliothèque | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Public library |
| Location | 475, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L 5C4 |
| Coordinates | 45°30′56″N 73°33′45″W / 45.5156°N 73.5624°WCoordinates: 45°30′56″N 73°33′45″W / 45.5156°N 73.5624°W |
| Construction started | 2001 |
| Opened | 30 April 2005 |
| Cost | $90.6 million |
| Owner | Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 |
| Floor area | 33,000 m2 (360,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm |
Patkau Architects Croft-Pelletier/Gilles Guité |
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| Collection | |
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| Items collected | books, e-books, music, cds, periodicals, maps, genealogical archives, business directories, local history, |
| Size | 4 million items |
The Grande Bibliothèque is a public library in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec's national library.
Membership in the library is free to all residents of Quebec. With some 10,000 users per day and a record of 3,000,000 users in 2009—double the projected figure of 1.5 million. In 2011, it attracted 2.7 million visitors, and was the most frequented public library in both North America and the Francophonie.
The Grande Bibliothèque's collection consists of some 4,000,000 works, including 1,140,000 books, 1,200,000 other documents, and 1,660,000 microfiches. The majority of the works are in French; about 30% are in English, and a dozen other languages are also represented. The library has some 80 kilometres of shelf space.
These works are divided into two collections. The Collection nationale or Québec heritage collection, with about one million works, consists of copies of all works given to the BNQ for legal deposit, that is every book published in the province since 1968 as well as some 35,000 books published elsewhere that are pertaining to the subject of Quebec or whose at least one co-author is originally from the province. Documents by or about French Canadians, French Americans or Aboriginal peoples of the province are also included in this last number. This is supplemented by the Saint-Sulpice collection of some 78,000 works, some dating back to the 1760s and including books from the personal libraries of such figures as Louis-Joseph Papineau and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. The Collection nationale is available for on-site reference.
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