The CRDN (Documentary and Digital Resources Centre) at Télécom Paris is open to all under certain conditions and welcomes you 7 days a week. It provides users with documentary resources and services, as well as several areas for consulting books, working alone or in a group, relaxing or printing documents. The CRDN also offers documentary research training.
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CRDN Library’s mission statement
« The raison d’être of the Centre de Ressources Documentaires et Numériques (CRDN) is to accompany and support teaching and research activities. It must anticipate and respond to the documentary, service and training needs of its users, so that they can access the information they need to imagine and design tomorrow’s society ».
In a context marked by the explosion of data, the Centre de Ressources Documentaires et Numériques (CRDN) is the vehicle for access to scientific documentation. In its architectural and symbolic expression, it is the place where knowledge and culture are expressed.
The main mission of the Télécom Paris library is to welcome, advise and inform its users by providing them with an interdisciplinary documentary collection specialising in digital technology. In order to enrich its collections in a reasoned and qualitative manner, it implements a cutting-edge documentary watch in technical fields, including more specifically digital technology.
The library also aims to anticipate and meet the expectations of its users – teachers, researchers, students, doctoral students, etc. – by supporting them in their work and study activities. It therefore offers them a range of services (training, information support, spaces, equipment and tools that are adapted and innovative).
A key support for the world of research, it contributes to promoting the school’s scientific output by helping to administer open archives.
The CRDN aims to be a hybrid, intermediary space where the school’s users and staff can meet and exchange ideas outside work and home.
A convivial and relaxing place, the CRDN – “third place” – pays particular attention to “living together”. Comfortable and aesthetically pleasing, it plays a central role in the school’s social and cultural life.
In an ever-changing world, the CRDN – with the help of its partners (IMT, IP Paris and UP Saclay) – is constantly reinventing itself.
Its fundamental ambition is to help its various publics to appropriate the information and services on offer, in order to help them create and build tomorrow’s society.
CRDN’s missions
Accompany and support teaching and research activities
- Implement and coordinate Télécom Paris’ documentary policy.
- Train and inform users in the use of documentary resources.
- Anticipate and respond to the needs of different publics.
- Offer innovative documentary services (research tools, group and individual work areas, relaxation areas, etc.).
- Contribute to the promotion of scientific production (HAL repository, thesis repository).
- Communicate on CRDN activities.
- Promote CRDN spaces.
- Embody the new library model as a third place.
- Imagine and design the library of tomorrow.
Propose and organise cultural events in line with the institution’s identity and values.
To do this, set up and/or develop partnerships with:
- Languages and culture department.
- Social Diversity & Disability.
- Environment / sustainable development / ecological transition.
- Campus and student life.
- Various student associations (BDE, BDAC, etc.).
Cooperation and networking with other libraries working towards the same goals (IP Paris, HEC, Paris Saclay, etc.).
