Missions of Municipal Libraries

• To make collections of different types of documents available to all audiences, for information, leisure, education and cultural purposes.

• Promote access to information; train the public in its use, in all its forms (print, digital, audiovisual).

• To provide a public space for meeting, confrontation and reflection (the library as a place for social life), and for citizen debate.

• Preserve and develop heritage funds. Contribute to the promotion and dissemination of heritage.

• Contribute to the promotion and dissemination of cultural creation.

• To allow cultural mediation in the direction of the arts, human and social sciences, science and technology, literature.

• Contribute to the development of reading and the fight against illiteracy.

• Implement strategies to reach out to new audiences.

• Supporting initial and continuing education and self-training.

Free of charge throughout the network

Since 1 July 2019, the subscription to the municipal library is free for all Grenoble residents and non-Grenoble residents, to borrow from the 12 libraries in the network and access 24/7 to the Grenoble-Alpes digital library.