Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne : History, Notes and references Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (August 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, BCU) was founded in the 16th century and became one of the most important public libraries in Switzerland.^[1]

History

The University of Lausanne was founded in 1537;^[2] and the library collection has evolved over the centuries to meet the changing needs of the institution's seven faculties—theology, law, arts, social and political science, business and economics, science and medicine.

In 1982, the university's central administration and the Cantonal and University Library (BCU) were installed at Dorigny.^[3]