The EFEO Paris Library - Maison de l'Asie

Information

Dear library users, we will be asking you to register prior to coming to the library by visiting our online catalog and filling up the registration form, please be careful to choose "Maison de l'Asie" as homebranch (and not "Bulac"). 

This registration will have to be confirmed at the library's frontdesk with the staff.

Practical Informations

22, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Tel. +33 (0)1 53 70 18 46
Fax +33 (0)1 53 70 87 60

email: bibliotheque@efeo.net

The EFEO Paris Library

Curator of the Library: Katia Juhel

• Head of the Chinese and Korean collections: Dat-Wei Lau
  
• Head of the Japanese collection: Antony Boussemart
• Head of the South Asian collection: Maïté Hurel
  
• Head of the Southeast Asian collections: Bernadeta Sardjono
• Periodicals, exchanges: Antony Boussemart
• Electronic resources: Katia Juhel
• Inter-library loan: Dat-Wei Lau
  Some books are mentioned as "Disponible pour le PEB" in the SUDOC online catalog, yet it can happen that it is not the case. Please contact the ILL in charge who will confirm you if the book is available or not.
• Communication: Wanlapa Keawjundee, Saming Prasomsouk

Since june 2021, the collections of the Asian Research Centres of the EHESS and the EPHE have been transfered to the Campus Condorcet.

They are not anymore available in the Maison de l'Asie. For any inquiry, please contact directly the EHESS and EPHE research centres : 

Depending on EHESS :

• Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine
  

• Centre d’Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes (CESAH)

• Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (UMR 8563) :
  

• Centre de recherches sur la Corée

• Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE) (UMR 8170)

Depending on EPHE:

• Centre de documentation sur l'aire tibétaine (CDAT)

• Centre de recherches sur les religions et traditions populaires du Japon

Opening hours

Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Document retrieval is not available from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm and after 5:00 pm.

Annual closing from Christmas through New Year's (dates vary, check with staff).

List of days the library will be closed in 2025

Conditions of use

Registration is mandatory: please bring a valid ID or student ID.

How to get there

The EFEO library, together with the EHESS (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials) and EPHE (Ecole partique des hautes etudes) Asian studies libraries, are located in the Maison de l'Asie: 22, avenue du Présudent Wilson, 75116 Paris:

* METRO : Line 6 (Trocadéro or Kleber stations) ; line 9 (Iéna station)
* BUS : Lines 63, 92 or 32

Services

Loans

Borrowing privileges are open to any researcher or student affiliated with a French University..

Photocopies and reprography

A photocopier and a microform reader-printer are available to members of the public. 

NB: Due to conservation requirements, no photocopies may be made of rare, valuable or fragile books and publications.

Inter-library loan

The EFEO library participates in an inter-library loan scheme. Please contact the staff.

Some books are mentioned as "Disponible pour le PEB" in the SUDOC online catalog, yet it can happen that it is not the case. Please contact the ILL in charge who will confirm you if the book is available or not.

Consultation of the archives

The inventories and finding aids are published jointly on Calames and the EFEO archive website.