Collections
BULAC's collections span a wide range of disciplinary fields and geographical areas.

Le fonds tibétain en libre accès, rez-de-jardin (Grégoire Maisonneuve / BULAC).
General overview
BULAC's collections give readers access to approximately 1.5 million documents, some of which have never before been made available to the public. These documents cover 180 countries and are written in nearly 350 languages and 80 different scripts.
With its three floors totalling about 6,000 m2 of surface and 7,000 linear metres of bookshelf space, the open access part of the library contains around 10 % of BULAC’s collections. The documents located on these floors are categorised according to the area they are from or about, as well as the disciplinary field they deal with. There are seven main sections:
0 - General works, covering books that deal not with a specific region but either several areas or the entire world;
1 - The Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe;
2 - The Maghreb, the Near East, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa;
3 - Sub-Saharan Africa;
4 - Asia;
5 - Pacific Oceania;
6 - America and Greenland.
Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe
Slavic studies collections are notably strong.
Languages covered are: Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Czech, Slovakian, Ukrainian, Ex-Yougoslavian, Romani, Sorb, Finno-ugric…

Le domaine caucasien est constitué d’ouvrages répartis sur plusieurs aires géographiques : la Russie du Sud (Républiques d’Adyguée, du Daghestan, d’Ingouchie, de Kabardino-Balkarie, de Karatchaievo-Tcherkessie, d’Ossétie du Nord, de Tchétchénie) et la Transcaucasie (Arménie, Géorgie et Azerbaïdjan).
Maghreb, Near East, Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa
The Arab, Turkish and Iranian sections have become references in their fields.
Languages covered are: Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Georgian, Hebrew, Iranian, Turkic…
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Ethiopian and Malagasy collections are particularly rich.
Languages covered are: Ethiopian, Fula, Hausa, Malagasy, Mandingo, Swahimi, Wolof…
Asia
The oldest and richest holdings are the Chinese and the Japanese collections.
Languages covered are: Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malay, Mongolian, Nepalese, Oceanian, Tamil, Thaï, Tibetan, Urdu, Vietnamese…
Pacific Oceania
This section is divided into two parts: the Australian continent on one hand, the archipelagos (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) on the other.
Languages covered are: Belep, Drehu, Houaïlou, Nengone, Tahitian…

Carvings of Birds with Snakes. George Brown, Melanesians and Polynesians : their life-histories described and compared, London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1910. Collections de la BULAC, BIULO QQ.VII.11.

Sélection bibliographique Voix d’Océanie. Environnement, culture, souveraineté (Maxime Ruscio / BULAC).
America and Greenland
This section is divided into two parts: the North American Arctic on one hand, South America and Mesoamerica on the other.
Languages covered are: Aymara, Guarani, Inuktitut, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechuan…

Sélection bibliographique Les langues du Québec (Maxime Ruscio / BULAC).

Étienne-Charles Brasseur de Bourbourg, Manuscrit troano : études sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas, Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1869-70. Collections de la BULAC, BIULO P.I.9 05.