A unique document collection
The Tour du Valat Resource Centre was established in 1954 at the same time as the Tour du Valat. It was originaly made up of documents from the personal library of Luc Hoffmann, founder of the Research Institute. Since the beginning, The Resource Centre has offered researchers a specialized document collection in ornithology, ecology and Mediterranean wetlands conservation.
The Resource Centre is open to everyone.
- On site, The Resource Centre provides its users with workspace and free Internet access. It offers accessibility to all documents and the assistance of a librarian.
- Online, its web portal provides an opportunity to discover the most recent publications produced by Tour du Valat researchers, conduct bibliographic queries in its specialized document collection, view thematic selections of bibliographic references, see the contents of the journals recently received at the Library, discover the Library's new books.
The library's reference material, at first devoted mainly to ornithology, has been built up to include related fields of research, ecology and conservation.
Collections
They comprise:
- 8 500 publications and theses
- 45 300 articles, booklets and reports
- 490 periodicals, 70 of which are current
The reference section specialises in the following fields:
- General ecology, wetland ecology
- Nature conservation
- Management and protection of wetlands, especially in the Mediterranean region
- Ornithology
- Zoology: mammalogy, ichthyology, herpetology
- Botany
