Grande Bibliothèque

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The Grande Bibliothèque is a public library in Downtown Montreal, Quebec. Its collection is part of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec’s national library.Membership in the library is free to all residents of Quebec. With some 10,000 users per day and a record of 3,000,000 users in 2009 double the projected figure of 1.5 million it has become the most popular library in the French-speaking World.
The Grande Bibliothèque’s collection consists of some 4,000,000 works, including 1,140,000 books, 1,200,000 other documents, and 1,660,000 microfiches. The majority of the works are in French; about 30% are in English, and a dozen other languages are also represented. The library has some 80 kilometres of shelf space.
These works are divided into two collections. The Collection nationale or Québec heritage collection, with about one million works, consists of copies of all works given to the BNQ for legal deposit since 1968. This is supplemented by the Saint-Sulpice collection of some 78,000 works, some dating back to the 1760s and including books from the personal libraries of such figures as Louis-Joseph Papineau and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine.
The library has 1300 reading armchairs, 850 study seats and carrels, and 350 computer stations.The basement contains a children’s library with special audio-visual equipment, the Espace jeunes.Its extensive multimedia facilities include 44 audio stations and 50 video stations, as well as multimedia computer terminals and two music rooms with facilities for composing electronic music.
Other specialized services include a job and career centre, a business connection centre, a special service centre for newcomers to Québec, and a language laboratory.In addition to its collections, reading rooms, and audio-visual facilities, the Grande Bibliothèque also contains exhibition spaces, conference rooms, theatres, and auditoriums.
The Grande Bibliothèque, which had been a pet project of former Québec premier Lucien Bouchard, was designed by Patkau Architects from Vancouver and Croft-Pelletier/Gilles Guité from Quebec City.

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