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We’ve now arrived at “Black November”, the name given to the penultimate month of the year to celebrate the race to find the best deals, in particular Black Friday, the last Friday in November. Since 1992, resistance to consumerism has been organized under the banner of Buy Nothing Day. This year’s event takes place on […]

Access 20 million documents from November 14, 2022 swisscoverySLSP’s search platform, with extended search. Renouvaud plusthe new interlibrary loan service. Renouvaud plus offers documents delivered in 3 days instead of 10 days for CHF 8.- and a loan period of 28 days, as well asan extension of BCUL collection locations to Unithèque, Internef, Riponne and […]

The final episode of From Sign to Sound, our journey of discovery into the world of interpretation! This time, the spotlight is on world music and one of its leading figures: Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, whose real name was Robindra Shaunkor Chowdhury, who passed away 10 years ago. A true legend of Indian […]

Discover the fourth episode in the series Du signe au son ou l’art de l’interprétation. In the spotlight is one of the singers who marked the history of French chanson: Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara, who passed away 25 years ago. “One day, I went to hear Edith Piaf. She was singing on the […]

If you’re worried about missing out on a bargain in this month of warm-up exercises before the end-of-year sales sprint, look no further! Bargains are closer than you think. This Friday, and every other day of the year, BCU Lausanne is proud to offer you free access to a wide range of online resources. You’ll […]

Aviator Eric Bradley and city councillor Paul Rosset before their flight over Lausanne, photograph by Eugène Würgler, postcard, circa 1920. Fonds de la Collection iconographique vaudoise. Over 3,700 heritage documents relating to means of locomotion are now available on the Patrinum database. Inventoried in batches and fully digitized, this rich collection consists mainly of photographs […]