École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques explained

National School of Information Science and Libraries
Native Name:École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques
Native Name Lang:fr
Other Name:Enssib
Established:1992
Address:17/21 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918
City:Villeurbanne
State:Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country:France

The École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB; French for National Superior School of Information Science and Libraries) is a French grande école based in Villeurbanne, near Lyon. It is administered by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.[1]

Enssib's predecessor, the École nationale supérieure de bibliothécaires, was established by decree in 1963 as an Établissement public à caractère administratif.[2] The contemporary Enssib was formed by later decree in 1992, with elevated status as a grand établissement.

It provides education and training for library curators and librarians in the French civil service after a competitive examination. The school is also a member of the University of Lyon and grants a variety of master's degrees, open to those not in the civil service.[3]

Since 2009, the school publishes the , a journal established in 1956 by the merging of the Bulletin de documentation bibliographique and Bulletin d'information de la Direction des Bibliothèques de France.[4] The school belongs to the Couperin consortium.

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  1. Web site: Décret no 92-25 du 9 janvier 1992. live. 2021-05-30. Legifrance. https://web.archive.org/web/20210603121134/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000356825 . 2021-06-03 .
  2. Web site: Décret n°63-712 du 12 juillet 1963. 2021-05-30. Legifrance. 2022-05-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20220520141713/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000679875. live.
  3. Web site: L'Enssib aujourd'hui Enssib. 2021-05-30. www.enssib.fr. 2021-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615233247/https://www.enssib.fr/l-enssib-aujourdhui. live.
  4. Web site: Histoire du BBF . BBF . Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'information et des Bibliotheques . fr . 14 August 2017 . 18 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170818010743/http://bbf.enssib.fr/histoire-du-bbf . live .