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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.〔Guthrie, Jennifer. "La Grande Bibliothèque a 5 ans." ''Métro'' (Montréal), April 29, 2010, p. 10.〕 In 2011, it attracted 2.7 million visitors, and was the most frequented public library in both North America and the Francophonie. ==Collection== The 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 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 ''Collection nationale'' is available for on-site reference. The , a collection of about three million works on all subjects, includes the collection of the , purchased from the City of Montreal for the project, as well as new acquisitions. Except for reference works, these works are available for loan. Written works are catalogued by the Dewey Decimal System. Besides written works, there is also a large multimedia collection including 70,000 music CDs, 5,000 music scores, 16,000 films on DVD and Blu-ray, and 500 software programs, available for loan. The library's adapted book service holds more than 50,000 documents for the visually impaired, including Braille and audiobooks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grande Bibliothèque」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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