Saint-Germain-des-Prés Library, Research library in Latin Quarter, Paris, France

The Saint-Germain-des-Prés Library occupies the ground floor of the Jacob building on the Saint-Germain-des-Prés campus, rue des Saints-Pères in the 6th arrondissement. It is a multidisciplinary university library of Université Paris-Cité, formed in 2021 by merging the social sciences library with the campus science library. Its reading room is divided into study areas by freestanding bookcases with light tan end panels and dark shelves, and by pale gray paneled carrels carrying yellow signs.

The sociology library was created by Lucienne Thomas and first housed on Rue de Varenne before moving to Rue Cardinet in 1959. Jacques Lautman renamed it the CNRS Sociology Library in 1986, and it reopened on Rue Pouchet in 2004 with 50,000 books. In 2006 it joined the Paris Descartes collections on Rue des Saints-Pères, and the two merged into the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Library in 2021.

Since January 2011, fifteen framed portraits of sociologists, including Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss and Maurice Halbwachs, have been displayed in the reading room. They were entrusted to the library in 2008 by the former Friends of the Centre d'Études Sociologiques, and part of the set is available on the MediHAL open archive.

The library occupies the ground floor of the Jacob building on the Saint-Germain-des-Prés campus, on rue des Saints-Pères in the 6th arrondissement. It serves the university research community, mainly graduate students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Fifteen framed portraits of sociologists, including Durkheim, Mauss and Halbwachs, have hung in the reading room since January 2011.

In 2008 the former Friends of the Centre d'Études Sociologiques gave the library 15 framed photographic portraits, 32.5 by 38.5 cm, of sociologists including Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs and Georges Gurvitch. They were displayed in the reading room from January 2011, and part of the set is available on the MediHAL open archive.