Consultation & Loans
The media library of the Centre national de l'audiovisuel is a lending and on-site or remote consultation library. It has been part of the Luxembourg library network bibnet.lu since its creation in 2007. Unique in its kind in Luxembourg, it offers an audiovisual documentary collection, as well as resources in the fields of cinema, photography, music, and sound.
Easy & free membership
Any adult resident in Luxembourg or border regions can register for free at the media library. Children up to 14 years are registered by an adult. Download the registration form and bring it to the media library with a proof of identity to finalize your membership.
Registered users receive a reader card with an identifier with which they access their personal space on a-z.lu. a-z.lu is the collective search engine of the bibnet.lu library network. It gives you access to the entire documentation of the 88 Luxembourgish libraries: request items at your library or read them online.
Loans
Number of documents available for loan
10 per medium - it is therefore possible to borrow 10 DVDs, 10 Blu-Rays, 10 books, 10 CDs and 10 scores
Loan Terms
Books, sheet music, CDs, Blu-Ray player: 28 days
Blu-Rays: 14 days
New: 7 days
Extension of documents
Any document may be extended once for the same duration, unless it is booked by another reader
Return
Outside opening hours, leave your documents in the return locker at the CNA reception, open from 9am to 10pm
Late returns
If you exceed the return date without having returned the borrowed documents, you will be automatically blocked until they are returned. You will no longer be able to extend, reserve or borrow documents via a-z.lu. This applies to all documents you have borrowed from a specialized library. So remember to extend the loan period of your documents via a-z.lu or by contacting us.
On-site research and consultation by appointment
The media library offers a research and on-site consultation service outside normal opening hours to researchers, students, audiovisual professionals and private individuals wishing to carry out research on a specific audiovisual subject.
Simply state your research objective in a few words, and you'll be able to reserve a time slot for researching and/or consulting documents in the media library's collection.
These timeslots are from Monday to Friday between 9 am and 12 pm.
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