34 Cours Léopold (left-hand entry, level -1)
54000 Nancy
Tel.: 03 54 50 54 61

Opening hours

Monday and Thursday 13:00 to 18:30 (to take advantage of the extension, you must enter the Library no later than 18:00)
Tuesday and Wednesday: 13:00 to 18:00 (closed on Jan.31)
Friday: 13:00 to 17:00
The Library will remain open during the February school holidays.

Closed Saturday

Book Club: the Book Club kicked off its 2011/2012 season on Nov. 4 at 3 PM with Willa Cather's My Antonia. Its members have decided to schedule its meetings every two months on the first Friday. The dates for 2012 are Jan. 6, March 2, May 4 and July 6. For the March meeting, the members are reading a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale.

Black History Month lecture: our traditional Black History Month lecture is scheduled for March 8 at 4:30 PM (room to be announced) and is entitled “Lessons From Martin Luther King for the 21st Century.”

Program of Library activities 2011/2012
printable text in Word format
printable text in .pdf format (Adobe Reader).
Click here for news of the Friends of the Library (ABAN: Association des Amis de la Bibliothèque Américaine de Nancy)
The May-June Newsletter for 2011 is still available. If you are not a member of the Library but would like to read it, contact the Library or the ABAN, give your e-mail address and ask that the file be sent to you as an attachment. Or drop by the Library and pick up a copy.
Conversation groups (for members only) take place Monday and Thursday, 16:30-18:00
The workshop on using the internet to learn English or improve your language skills (for members only) takes place every Thursday, 15:00 to 16:30. To participate, contact Claude Wendling before you come.

Complete list of new acquisitions Jan. 1 2010-June 30 2010 now online (Word format; .pdf format). The Library has begun to acquire DVDs and audiobooks; here is a list of those already catalogued (click here).
Consultation of the Library's catalogue: the Library's catalogue has now been folded into the catalogue of the university library. You may consult it from home by going to the Service Commun de Documentation (SCD) search page (click here) and searching by author or by title. You may limit your search to the American Library's collection by clicking on Advanced Search (menu Catalogue : Rech. rapide / avancée) and selecting the library (BUL-Bibliothèque américaine) in the list.
Information on the library's activities will be only accessible from this page. The SCD page (click here) is limited to general information and opening hours.
Information on library membership fees (click here)

Don't forget to renew if your library membership is due for renewal. No deposit is now required.
Free membership for students of Nancy-Université (including the University of Metz).
Free six-months' membership (renewable) for the unemployed.
Free membership for paid-up members of the ABAN. ABAN membership is 10€ per year for adults and 4€ per year for those under 18 years of age and for students who wish to join the conversation groups. This special rate does not allow use of the other Nancy-Université libraries, except for students.
Students registered in a French university outside of Lorraine, except for ABAN members: 29€ a year.
All other types of membership: 40€ a year. This rate permits access to all of the university libraries.
It is possible for secondary-school teachers of English to ask their educational establishment to sign a convention with the Université de Nancy 2 which provides membership for all of the pupils in a class and access to all the other university libraries. If only a few pupils are interested, we recommend that they join the ABAN at 4€ a year in order to obtain a free membership.

Friends of the Library (ABAN: Association des Amis de la Bibliothèque Américaine de Nancy)
We still need willing hands to get the backlog of books registered, covered, identified and on the shelves, even though the backlog is being slowly reduced. Ruth Etienne is the coordinator of the volunteer program. We also encourage our English-speaking members to participate in the conversation groups whenever they are in the Library. Please drop by.
At the May 2011 meeting of the Board, the possibility of starting a book club and a cineclub was discussed. The members were consulted to see whether there were enough interested parties to warrant the organization of a book club and there were enough favorable responses for a trial group start-up. See the top of this page for the list of dates when the club will meet. Members will be consulted later on for the cineclub.