Life at BCUL

The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne sees life in blue and offers you a thematic selection tinged with humor! Working in a library sometimes means having superpowers. Every librarian has surely been confronted at least once with this type of request from a reader: “I can’t remember the title but…” “…it was sitting on this display” […]

Why keep it short? The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne has unearthed these books with the longest, wackiest titles! L’extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui avait resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea, Le potager des malfaiteurs ayant échapper à la pendaison or Le cercle littéraire des amateurs d’épluchures de patates . .. “Why keep it simple when […]

Many of you responded to our survey conducted in 2018, and we’ve tried to meet many of your expectations. For students, we have changed the tables in the galleries and provided more electrical outlets. We have also installed PrintUnil on all our photocopiers, enabling students, teachers and researchers to use the printing credits offered by […]

Perhaps you’re a little tired of staying at home: too many people, too much noise, too many incessant demands… not a minute to relax and read the press or a good magazine. A word of advice: discreetly grab your tablet, cell phone or laptop, leave your home on the pretext of an errand to run, […]

Unithèque survey results “Please rate your level of agreement with the following statements”, “What services would be useful to you in the future?”, “Describe your ideal library”. These three questions (and a few others!) were included in the survey carried out just over a year ago among Unithèque users. The aim of the survey was […]

If I tell you: Daniel Prévost, Mélanie Laurent, Jeremy Irons, Alexandre Tharaud, Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Adèle Haenel, Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Rampling or Jean-Luc Bideau, what do you say??? I’ll wait a bit… But yes! Of course! Everyone knows, that’s for sure! These are personalities who have all appeared in Swiss dramas or documentaries… What […]