Current Operations Location
The Enssib is located in Villeurbanne , near Lyon , on the campus of La Doua. It also has offices in Paris ( 15th arrondissement ) until August 2009 for writing the Bulletin des bibliothques de France , when integrating it into the local Enssib, motivated by the general revision of public policies. However, the site of Grandclment (also in Villeurbanne, in the neighborhood of the same name), which was originally installed the Training Institute of Librarians, now integrated into enssib, is now abandoned with the enlargement of the premises La Doua.
Organization
The Enssib is a large institution (a public scientific, cultural and professional), a "big school" which depends on the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
It is placed under the authority of a director (currently Anne-Marie Bertrand ), assisted by the decisions of three councils :
- The Board of Directors (BOD), whose composition is fixed by Decree No. 92-25 of 9 January 1992 and amended by Decree No. 2003-894 of 12 September 2003 sets out broad guidelines. It meets at least twice a year and includes seven members (representatives of relevant departments of central government), appointed nine members (four by the Ministry of Higher Education, four by the Ministry of Culture and by Ministry of Interior) and twenty-two members elected from the various categories of staff and students.
- Scientific Council (SC), whose composition determined by the same decree is consulted by the Board for all matters relating to the teachings (guidance, empowerment of qualifications, powers off the MoR in higher education diplomas ...) and research. He is also responsible for assessing educational and scientific Enssib. It meets at least twice a year and includes twenty-four members: twelve qualified personalities appointed for three years (Decree of July 19, 2007) including three designated by the Board of Enssib, five appointed by the Minister of higher education and four appointed by the Minister of Culture, and twelve elected members, staff representative (nine representatives elected for three years) and students staff (three reprsentaits elected for one year).
- The joint committee establishment, which includes representatives of the school and certain categories of staff (excluding teachers and researchers) meets twice a year.
- Finally, a joint technical committee was established in spring 2009, bringing enssib in accordance with the law.
Enssib services are divided into several directions and tasks:
- Departments
- Department of Studies and Research, involving the director of studies, research director, heads of degrees and research professors , four university professors , six assistant professors , three associate research professors ;
- Department of Library Services, bringing the library FORMIST, the Publications Service (responsible for presses enssib and Bulletin des bibliothques de France), the professional intelligence services, enhancement and digital library ;
- Department of Information Technology;
- Administrative and financial services under the authority of the Secretary General.
- Project leaders (under the direct authority of the Director of Enssib)
- Evaluation;
- International relations.
Training
The Enssib form:
- the curators and librarians of State;
- by delegation of INET : Conservatives territorial (working for local authorities, mainly in public libraries and county);
- part of the territorial librarians can take to their initial training courses involving the enssib;
- students from various sectors across three masters specialty;
- the entire staff of French libraries through continuing education; enssib however essentially mandated by the ministries for the training of class libraries.
Until 2008, she was also responsible for organizing the competition to recruit agents in the chain library for public service (all competitions for the state civil service, and competition for the Class A local government service). These competitions are now held by government regulators.
The Conservatives state and territorial
Conservative Students (State and Territorial) follow a course of eighteen months (six months for the Conservatives promoted), punishable by obtaining the "degree of Conservative libraries (DCB). The school includes two courses including a four-month internship, which can be done in France or abroad.
They have the status of conservative student. Following their training, the state curators are appointed to a vacant position according to their preferences and demands of institutions. The Conservatives are on a territorial reserve list and can then be recruited directly by a community.
Generally have a diploma five years of study entry Enssib, conservatives have long trainees are encouraged to prepare a doctorate in anticipation of the opening positions of all European conservatives and ensure their personal scientific missions of libraries. The evolution of recruitment shows that more and more important to conservatives recruited by competition already hold a doctorate. The Conservatives also propose trainees are from the year 2008-2009, the Master Book and learn to sanction their professional training, thus adapting to the European system of training.
Conservative students have decided to name their promotion (traditionally numbered since 1992, the year of transformation in ENSB Enssib) from 2005:
Librarians
Students of state librarians are trained for one year. They are appointed on their first position upon entry to and work Enssib alternating Enssib library and in their stations.
Masters
The Enssib offers three Masters in cohabilitation with other institutions:
- Professional Master (SIB Information Sciences and libraries) with the University Lyon 1. He is the heir of the IUP and Dessid DIST. It offers lessons in the following areas:
- Management of scientific and technical information in the enterprise (GIST)
- Digital library services (DDS)
- Multilingual information systems (fax)
- Cultures master of writing and image , (research orientation and professional) with the University Lumire Lyon 2 (History Department), in collaboration with the Ecole Nationale des Chartes.
- Master Book and Learn (Humanities and Arts) with the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon ( ENS-LSH ), from the 2008-2009 school year. This master offers a unique training in first year and second year in two specialties:
- electronic publishing of knowledge;
- libraries.
Research
The Enssib also conducts an activity of research , in partnership with other institutions of higher education, French and foreign.
Center Gabriel Naude took over the Centre for Research in Book History (host team 3717). He works on three axes . The first concerns the history of the book. Of long-term projects are progressing, as Prosopography men of the book ( Dominique Varry ). This axis is home to several projects around the use of computer tools with the aim of advancing research into the history books and libraries, with a draft electronic editions Lyon Bibliography of XVI century to the completeness and supplemented by a database of typographical devices to assist in the identification of non-localized structures (William Kemp). It hosts the seminar "Author, printer, translator, assistant ... who writes?" designed to study the processes of book production in early modern times, proposed by Raphael Mouren and Martine Furno. In the field of research in book history and library, the center organizes conferences Naude and workshops .
The second area concerns research in library history in modern times and contemporary. It includes a reconstruction project collections dispersed by the combined use of available sources (inventories manuscripts and printed books themselves, records) through the use of structured databases (collections and collectors, and Isabelle Westeel Raphale Mouren ); for contemporary history, is based on case studies of institutions and study of the library as a result of a socio-cultural and historical context. Latest addition: Martine Poulain, looted Books, Libraries-monitored readings under French occupation, Paris, Gallimard, 2008.
The third axis, socio-anthropological, explores representations of libraries and librarians and asked about the uses of these institutions.
Helicoidal (Research Team of Lyon Information and Communication) consists of researchers from six research institutions in Lyon .
The diffusion of knowledge
The Enssib has its own editions (Enssib Press), which offer traditional print editions as well as electronic editions. An open archive in information science has been established. Student work are also available online to give them more visibility and make them available to the entire profession and researchers.
The Enssib participates in the Institute of History of the book , with the city of Lyon (Library and Museum of Printing ), cole Normale Suprieure Lettres Sciences ( ENS-LSH , formerly ENS Fontenay St. Cloud) and the Ecole Nationale des Chartes. The objective of IHL is a dissemination activity around the book history, the organization's annual School of the IHL, open to all audiences involved where international experts in the history of books , by publishing a collection of presses ENS-LSH, "Metamorphoses of the Book" (two issues per year) , by organizing conferences or participation in symposia and workshops.
The Bulletin of the libraries of France , the leading professional journal for librarians, France, depends administratively Enssib.
The pilot enssib two programs on information and training:
- FORMIST, Training the scientific and technical information
- sibel, Computer Science and online libraries
Library
The enssib, like any institution of higher education, includes a library. Its collections are specialized in information science and library and in book history. It is open free to all, including for the loan.
Ratings
- A report submitted in 2004 by the General Inspectorate of libraries points a school project too eclectic .
- The Council of State overturned the failure to graduate from a library Conservative Conservative trainee .
Associations of students and alumni
The Conservative Association of Libraries (ABC) (1901) was founded as the Alumni Association of ENSB. She has been dissolved. The current Bureau of students is an association law 1901 which brings together students and students Enssib, whatever their status, to organize student life. A new alumni association of Enssib (all courses combined) is being created.
List of Directors