Salle lecture
Important !
L'espace numérique est temporairement indisponible en salle de lecture.
Archives
Reading room
Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne
248, avenue Charles Prieur
77190 Dammarie-lès-Lys
Tél. : 01.64.87.37.16
Département de Seine-et-Marne
Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne
Hôtel du Département
77010 Melun cedex
Email : contacts
IMPORTANT NOTE
In all correspondance, make sure that you specify following :
- Your adress
- Your telephone number
- Your email adress
- As much detail as possible about your request (date, shelf mark, name of municipality, etc.)
Monday to Thursday, 09:00 to 17h00.
Readers in the reading room can order up to 10 documents per day. To access the documents consultation areas, you must be registered as a reader.
The reader's card is issued free of charge at the departmental archives on presentation of an official ID document (national ID card, passport, driving licence, residence permit). The library card must be renewed every calendar year and is non-transferrable.
The reading room has its own internal regulation, displayed in the room itself and sent to every reader on registration.
To access the documents consultation areas, you must be registered as a reader. The reader's card is issued free of charge at the departmental archives on presentation of an official ID document (national ID card, passport, driving licence, residence permit). The library card must be renewed every calendar year and is non-transferrable.
Cloakrooms and luggage offices, mandatory, are available to the public. Ask the reading room reception staff for a locker key.
The reading room officers are responsable for welcoming and assisting readers. They ensure that the internal regulations (287 Ko) are adhered to and carry out searches in response to requests made by mail/email.
Readers may approach the reading room officers for :
- help in locating the required information for document ordering and consultation in the different areas of the reading room,
- scientific assistance for their research,
- making photocopies,
- ordering reproductions au laboratoire photographique,
- purchasing a book from the boutique.
The reading room president handles registrations of new readers and sets the rules to be followed for proper operation of the reading room.
Readers may approach the reading room president for :
- their registration,
- scientific assistance (research methods to be followed, useful sources etc.),
- application for an exemption, necessary for the consultation of certain documents,
- authorization to reuse public information held in the archives.
The reading room consists of several document consultation areas (total capacity 80 people) :
It used for consultation of inventories of collections and the usual documentation.
FIND OUT MORE : explore the methodological tips and help under menu item "Research tools"
The paper area is for consultation of original archive documents. The documents can be photographed under certain conditions in an area reserved for that purpose.
For document consultation in the best conservation and readability conditions, the following are made available to readers: magnifying glasses, lecterns, gloves, weights, neutral cardboard bookmarks, pencils ...
FIND OUT MORE : consult the viewing rules in the Reader's Guide
This area is used to access scanned archive documents, the website and the BRIARD database.
Readers can use the digital viewer to change their reading parameters (contrast, brightness, magnification) and to print their selections under certains conditions.
WIFI is available in the room on request from the reception team.
This room offers free consultation of microfilms and analyses carried out by genealogy associations.
Some microfilm readers allow the reading parameters to be changed (contrast, brightness, magnification) and documents to be reproduced under certains conditions.
A shop offers the publications of the Directorate of Departmental Archives, Heritage and Museums for sale.