Annecy is a territory where the cultural offer is significant. Festivals, theaters, and auteur cinema are offered throughout the year by local cultural actors. Libraries and media libraries are essential places to learn, but also to entertain oneself at low cost.
Facilitate access to culture and reading in Annecy
Annecy has 7 media libraries and 3 associative libraries within its municipal territory. The media libraries offer not only books but also the borrowing of CDs, DVDs, and contemporary artworks. The offer is significant and of high quality, with many literary new releases. The rates are modest for adults and free for minors.
You will enjoy walking through the library aisles, sitting down to read a comic book, and you can also participate in the various activities organized by the librarians of Annecy. Temporary exhibitions are regularly held at the Bonlieu media library. At the beginning of 2021, an exhibition showcased the new acquisitions of the art library, totaling 21 works including 4 photographs, 7 drawings, and one embroidery. These works can then be borrowed by subscribers.
Promote reading for the youngest
The libraries of Annecy welcome all audiences: toddlers, young people, schoolchildren, and seniors. A space is dedicated to the youngest at the Bonlieu media library, with cushions and suitable furniture. In 2019, this public service recorded 100,000 loans per month.
All classes from primary schools in Annecy regularly organize visits to the libraries. The provision of public internet access facilitates the discovery of digital resources. Documents can also be reserved online in the network of libraries in the Annecy agglomeration: BiblioFil.
During the health crisis, subscriptions dropped by 30%. To offer more facilities to readers, the libraries switch to summer hours starting June 30. The borrowing and return of documents are automated to ensure better fluidity. Exhibitions, concerts, and meetings with public writers are organized in these places to keep culture alive.
Practical: for returning your documents, you can bring them back to any library in Annecy and not just the one where you borrowed them. Return boxes are installed outside to allow for returns outside of opening hours.
The different libraries and media libraries of Annecy
We invite you to discover the 10 libraries and media libraries present in the territory of Annecy to choose the one that is closest to your home.
- Media Library Bonlieu – 1, rue Jean Jaurès – 74000 Annecy
- Library La Bouquinerie – Place Georges Boileau – 74370 Pringy
- Media Library La Prairie – 14 chemin de la Prairie – 74000 Annecy
- Media Library La Turbine – Place Chorus – 74960 Cran-Gevrier
- Library Les Pommaries – 13 A rue des Pommaries – 74940 Annecy-le-Vieux
- Media Library Les Romains – 1 boulevard de la Rocade – 74000 Annecy
- Library Les Tilleuls – 11 rue du Lachat – 74940 Annecy-le-Vieux
- Media Library Louise Michel – 5 rue François Vernex -74960 Meythet
- Media Library Novel – 7 bis rue Louis Armand – 74000 Annecy
- Media Library de Seynod – 1 place de l’Hôtel de ville – 74600 Seynod
To register, you just need an identity document. Books are loaned for a duration of three weeks. You can borrow as many books as you wish.
The rates:
- for adults living in Annecy: 25 € per year
- free for those under 18
- reduced rate of 12 € for job seekers, beneficiaries of RSA, API, or AAH, and students up to 26 years old.
We wish you happy reading.
