Founded in 1988 on the initiative of researchers and professionals, the Imec collects, preserves and promotes archives and collections devoted to publishing houses, magazines and professionals involved in the book industry and in contemporary creation: publishers, writers, artists, researchers, critics, graphic designers, booksellers, printers, reviewers, translators, journalists...

Dedicated to creation and to the publishing industry, this cultural legacy contributes to the development of scientific research on contemporary literature, arts and intellectual life, as well as to the development of studies on creators, intermediaries, networks, institutions, economy and productions.

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The National Audiovisual Institute (INA) collects, preserves and offers access to the legal deposit of radio and television archives. This outstanding collection can be perused at the Ardenne Abbey, in the Imec reading room, using the dedicated computers.

This online platform provides billions of hours of radiophonic and televisual documents, thousands of archived multimedia websites and movies, and digitized written documents. This service is free of charge but reservation is mandatory. Please get in touch with the library and archives help desk in order to book your seat.