The Arc’entel network and its catalogue

Short history of the Arc’entel network

Arc'entel is the name of the library network of the Institut Télécom, which federates the libraries and documentation centers of each of its bodies: by extension, it is also the name of the common catalogue, in which Télécom ParisTech, Télécom Bretagne, Télécom & Management SudParis, GET Head Office and Télécom Lille1 cooperate.

Each school of the Institut Télécom has its own library/libraries intended for students, teachers, permanent staff and doctoral students.
Each of these collections reflects the subjects taught at the school and its fields of research. Documents related to language-teaching may be incorporated into the general library or be grouped together in a specific resource center.

Arc'entel collection

The complete catalogue contains a little more than 70,000 titles, corresponding to 106,000 documents, mainly books, but also journals, reports, dossiers, electronic documents (cassettes, CD-ROMs, DVDs etc.) with 5000 registered users.

The catalogue can be freely consulted on http://www.institut-telecom.fr/arcentel (apart from a few hundred titles that cannot be viewed from the outside).

The schools’ libraries generally operate an inter-library loans system (ILL). They can accommodate external readers. To find out the conditions for using the libraries, contact them directly.