The BCUL missions are defined in Articles 30 and 32 of the Act of 8 April 2014 on tangible and intangible heritage (LPMI). The BCUL acquires items of interest to the general population as well as the materials required for studying the subjects taught at the University of Lausanne and documents produced by the Canton of Vaud. The law requires that the BCUL receives a copy of every work published in the canton.
The acquisitions policy is free from any ideological, political or religious constraints and complies with copyright requirements in accordance with the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto.
The BCUL also plays a coordinating role for school libraries and coordinates Renouvaud, the network of libraries in Vaud.
The BCUL history dates back to 1537, when the Academy of Lausanne was founded by the Bernois. At the time, the library was housed in the City and reserved for professors only. It has been known as the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire (BCU) since 1898, and moved to the Palais de Rumine in 1905. This is still home to the Riponne site, where our public collections are held.
In 1968, the university collections were transferred to the Dorigny campus. The Banane was built in 1982. Now known as Unithèque, the building shares the academic collections with the Internef site. The Provence, HEP Vaud and Renens sites were incorporated into the library in 2013, 2014 and 2017 respectively.
In the field of information technology, the BCUL created SYBIL, the country’s first computerised catalogue system, in 1971. In 2009, for the first time in the French-speaking world,the BCUL worked with Google to digitise 100,000 works that were no longer covered by copyright. The Vaud press archive, Scriptorium, was launched in 2012. The BCUL has been part of RERO (the network of libraries in French-speaking Switzerland) for 30 years. The Renouvaud network of Vaud libraries was created in 2016.
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The regulations of the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – Lausanne (RBCU) of 1 April 2015 set out coordination arrangements at the cantonal level, the relationship with UNIL, library services, access to services and users’ obligations.
A number of other documents provide important information on using the library and its services, including its: fees for services, donations policy, and video security in the free-access areas.
The BCUL is part of the following networks:
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries
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