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The École Nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (or Enssib) is the French national LIS school associated with the Université de Lyon and located on the campus de La Doua. Its primary mission for over 20 years has been the training of library curators. The school also grants masters degrees and researches information science, librarianship, and books and libraries' history. Enssib plays a significant role in creating and circulating knowledge in its specific professional field: Information and library science. Enssib was founded in 1992, as a successor to the ENSB (National School for Librarians), which was established in 1963 and transferred to Villeurbanne, near Lyon, in 1974. In 199, Enssib merged with the Institute for Librarian Training, thereby becoming the only national establishment for managing and supervising library staff. Enssib has long been recognized abroad for its expertise in the specialist field of libraries and information science. Enssib's priority is the encouragement and facilitation of international mobility, together with the enhancement of its European and French-speaking partnerships. Encouragement of student mobility on an internship or semester basis in similar establishments, in partnership with the Rhône-Alpes Region via Explora Sup grants for Masters students and via partnerships with libraries abroad for internships (1–3 months). Its master's programs cover fields and careers relating to the history, processing, and exploitation of documented information. They are relevant to numerous established or emerging information management positions for which companies recruit: monitoring manager, community manager, library manager, digital archives administrator, digital editorial production chain manager, heritage collections specialists, project or document department managers, etc. enssib has developed life-long training programs for professionals willing to increase skills and extend or update their knowledge. The different teaching approaches are aimed at helping the learner to engage with the chosen course. Systems using education-oriented information and communication technology. Drawn up in close collaboration with the Ministry for Higher Education and Research (Libraries and Scientific Information Division) and the Ministry of Culture (Books and Reading Division), enssib's continuing education catalog annually offers new training courses covering the four main themes and issues in a library context: establishment and management collections and document policies library users and computer science and information and communication technology. In the context of civil service reform and the emphasis on lifelong learning, continuing education is now a core part of individual skills development. The researchers at the French national information science and library school are lecturers-researchers, library curators, students on various courses (masters, trainee curators), Ph.D. students, and researchers and library professionals associated with our activities in the framework of various projects. The long-term research comprises two main fields: information (as a social subject) and the library (as a tool for sharing knowledge and culture). Both teams, ELICO and the Gabriel Naudé Centre, thereby work, each within their area, on the history of the book, the history of libraries, the audience of new libraries, internet use, the geography of the web, information content management, cultural, heritage or informational public policies, the production of digital information, documentary practices in the digital era, etc. The subjects under study are many and varied but concern notably issues relating to access to information and the transfer of knowledge and culture. enssib boasts the biggest French library specialized in library science, information science, documentary information, and the book and libraries' history. A total of 45 000 works and 1 000 periodicals can be accessed. As a real resource center, the library collects, conserves, and provides access to any analysis or study document relating to information and library sciences. The library is an associate center of the French national library in information and library sciences. The library is open to everyone, 66 hours a week. It is used notably by students on information and communication science courses, lecturers-researchers and Ph.D. students in the same fields, library or document professionals, as well as people preparing for an entrance exam for a library or documentation-related careers. Offering the best in digital resources in the library and information science, the enssib digital library is an authentic resource center for professionals in the documentation and library field. Its collections assemble papers from colloquia and congresses, articles by professionals, and contributions from Information Science students, most of them from enssib but some from other study areas. Reports from institutions, the EU, different parliaments, and France's Library Board and Library Council are also available. Another feature is a corpus of user surveys carried out in French libraries. This unique material is available online with a view to knowledge sharing for the entire profession's benefit. View full university