The Pôle doc' team's first favorite book of the year! Inspired by European Sustainable Development Week, which runs from September 18 to October 8, 2025: " Petit manuel de répartie écologique " .

When the subject of ecology is close to our hearts, we often find ourselves at a loss when it comes to broaching the subject, fearing that we'll upset the mood, antagonize the other person or not have the right arguments to convince or at least make the other person think. This guide offers answers to deconstruct anti-environmental arguments. They are held by different types of profile: the new skeptics (Global warming? not in Normandy, given what it rains!), the immobilists (The State does nothing, neither do companies, why should I act? or the famous triangle of inaction), the eco(nomico)-anxious (we've already got more money for education, so the ecological transition...), the candid optimists (we've already made a lot of effort and young people are taking over), the techno-solutionists (long live the green plane, or the future is on Mars!), the cognitive dissonants (I agree that we need to act, but the plane is still faster to travel!).

The book is organized around these profiles, accompanied by their little phrases, and opposite an appropriate response.

Humor is one of the best means of self-defense, and this book is full of it.

You'll find this book on the new releases display among a selection of documents (books and DVDs) celebrating European Sustainable Development Week.

Until October 8, 2025, the Pôle doc' is celebrating European Sustainable Development Week. To mark the occasion, our librarians are offering a selection of books and documentaries from our new acquisitions.

You can also find them on our Instagram #poledocensan76 on ArchiRès.

A new digital resource has been added to the document center: Dicobat. What is Dicobat? Dicobat is an illustrated dictionary of building terminology. It's a reliable source that will make your work easier by providing reliable definitions.

Several search modes: by words and thousands of hyperlinks, by Themes, by your History, and now by illustrations thanks to VisuelBAT.

An example of a definition proposed by this resource:

concrete floor

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Find Dicobat on the local version ofArchiRès in the quick links or HERE

Our participative puzzles have been a great success with users, so we've added some new ones to our collection. This time, it's the IGN map of Paris, scattered like a jigsaw puzzle, that we're inviting you to piece together. The principle remains the same: everyone is welcome. There's no need to spend hours, just put in 1, 2, 3 or more pieces.

It's a way of reconnecting with others by taking part in a collective activity while training your brain in a task that mobilizes many cognitive abilities. What better way to stimulate your ability to pay attention, concentrate, observe, think and remember.

ArchiRès, the name of the network of ENSA documentalists and also of your documentary catalog, underwent some minor alterations this summer.

From now on, you no longer need to create an ArchiRès reader account and password, as you can now log in using your school ID.

The first time you log on to your account, simply select your school, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, to access your school login and password.

The Documentary Center will be closed to the public from June 30 to August 29, 2025.

Reopening on Monday, September 1, 2025 at 1:00 pm.

Whether you want to relax or not... the documentary center has installed a participatory puzzle. The principle is simple: everyone is welcome to contribute their piece to the puzzle. No need to spend hours on it, just add 1, 2, 3 pieces, or more if you like. For this first puzzle, the choice fell on the city of Le Havre and the cultural building Le Volcan by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. There's nothing better than a puzzle to help you stimulate your attention, concentration, observation, reflection, memorization, and connect the dots.

On Friday, June 27, 2025, theENSA Normandie documentation centerENSA Normandie "Le rendez-vous de la pédagogie" (The Education Forum) in the renovated premises of the Ateliers du Parc, an event organized each year by Normandie Université.

This day provides an opportunity for COMUE library staff working as trainers to meet and exchange experience and practices.

The theme is "Training students in AI". The University of Caen and the University of Le Havre will provide feedback on the AI training provided in their establishments, and workshops on building training bricks will be offered.

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Every year, in the first week of July, ENSA librarians disappear from their libraries and meet up at a school of architecture to attend the ArchiRès seminar. This singular event has been taking place since 1969, the year the network of architecture school libraries was born. ArchiRès is therefore the name of the network, the seminar and the common catalog that you can consult on the Internet for your research.

This year, the IMTV (Institut Méditerranéen de la Ville et des Territoires) in Marseille welcomed them to its brand new premises. The theme of the seminar was "Ecological transition: libraries at the heart of social and environmental issues" .

This seminar is an opportunity to exchange practices, review the year's work and joint projects, and take in cultural visits.

We owe our favorite book of the month of May, "Nous avons mangé la Terre", to a virtuous circle.

Jean-Robert Viallet, journalist and film-maker, is the author of the documentary "L'homme a mangé la terre" ("Man ate the earth"). The idea of making this film, which analyzes and denounces the chain of events that led to the current environmental situation, was inspired by the work of Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, authors of the book "L'évènement anthropocène, la Terre, l'histoire et nous" ("The anthropocene event, the earth, history and us").

The two historians and the journalist wanted to make available to as many people as possible the iconographic documents, photographs, maps and advertisements unearthed in the archives to illustrate the documentary's themes. The result is a book of images, sometimes shocking or highly visual, explained by captions or commentaries.

We have eaten the Earth... but who will eat us?