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Each year, the BDFIL festival explores a major contemporary social issue through the medium of comics. In 2025, the program explores the links between the world of work and the 9th art. To echo this, the BCUL offers a selection of comics on the theme of work. This selection brings together fictional stories, investigations, historical […]

In December 2024, the University of Grenoble’s ILCEA journal published an issue entitled Libraries outside the Empire: institutions and cultural practices in Russian-speaking exile (1870-1956). This publication is significant for the BCU Lausanne, as it devotes several articles to the Russian Library of Lausanne. The Russian Library of Lausanne operated as an independent library in […]

An emblematic monument of the city, a jewel of Gothic architecture, a place of worship and a witness to religious upheavals, Notre-Dame Cathedral has dominated the city of Lausanne for over seven centuries. To mark its 750th anniversary, the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne is offering a selection of documents to help you (re)discover […]

When BCUL librarians are challenged, jostled, amused, transported or transformed by a document, they like to share it with users. They do this through “Bouches-à-oreille”, bookmarks placed in the documents available on our various sites. We've selected a few below to inspire you to pay us a visit.

To mark the anniversary of Élisée Reclus’s death, BCUL offers a selection of documents and the following text by Christophe Mager (University of Lausanne). Élisée Reclus died 120 years ago. And yet, at a time when university seminars on sustainability, ecological transition projects and calls for environmental justice are flourishing, we almost forget that many […]

All we have to do is mention train travel, and we’re transported to vast imaginary worlds. We think of the advent of the railroad in the early 19th century, and the development of rail networks that made vast lands accessible. We dream of crossing North America or India, or of the Trans-Siberian Railway linking Moscow […]