The École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB; French for ''National Superior School of Information Science and Libraries'') is a French ''

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'' based in

Villeurbanne Villeurbanne (; frp, Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after tha ...

, near

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

. It is administered by the

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. Enssib's predecessor, the ''École nationale supérieure de bibliothécaires'', was established by

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in 1963 as an ''

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.'' The contemporary Enssib was formed by later decree in 1992, with elevated status as a ''

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''. It provides education and training for library curators and

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s in the

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after a competitive examination. The school is also a member of the

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and grants a variety of

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, open to those not in the civil service. Since 2009, the school publishes the ' (), a journal established in 1956 by the merging of the ''Bulletin de documentation bibliographique'' and ''Bulletin d’information de la Direction des Bibliothèques de France''. The school belongs to the

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consortium. ENSSIB 4

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External links

Official Enssib site (in French)
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