As a former member of the Center for the Acquisition and Diffusion of Scientific and Technical Information (Centre d’Acquisition et de Diffusion de l’Information Scientifique et Technique - CADIST) in astronomy-astrophysics and history of astronomy-astrophysics, the Paris Observatory Library is today part of Collections d’Excellence (CollEx) for these specialized subjects, and an active partner with the French National Library.
Library Directorate
– Véronique Stoll : Director
– Frédéric Saconnet : Deputy Director, Meudon
– Aleth Tisseau des Escotais : Deputy Director, Paris
– Cécile Veneau : assistant
– Philippe Mahot : financial management
Paris section
– Aleth Tisseau des Escotais : section head, documentation and heritage curation and management
– Claire Fantino : archives, museum collections, photo library
– Antonin Geoffroy : storage, inventoring, equipment, document digitizing
– Philippe Mahot : financial management
– Sandrine Marchal : acquisitions, ancient book collections
– Rhéa-Claire Pachocki : SUDOC coordination, catalogue
– Ingrid Schlager : archives, museum collections
– Cécile Veneau : assistant
– Robert Zéganadin : storage, journals, Interlibrary Lending
Meudon Section
– Frédéric Saconnet : section head, services for the researchers
– Johnny Castelneau : storage, computer assistance
– Capucine Larie : catalogue
– Sylvie Rembert : storage, journals
The permanent team is reinforced for short-term assignments by non-permanent colleagues and interns.
The Paris Observatory Library acquires, catalogs and preserves the documents needed by staff and students for research and academic purposes.
The Library is also responsible for the Paris Observatory archival and museum collections.
Additionally, the Library offers services for researchers in the management of their publications and datas.
The library of the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE) laboratory is associated with the Library.
The history of Paris Observatory Library dates back to 1785.
To learn more about it: History of the Library