page_title: Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives
hierarchical_section_title: Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bibliothèque de l'IMEC, aménagée dans l'ancienne abbatiale de l'abbaye d'Ardenne (14)
context_page_description: L'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine, translated as The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives, is a French institution created in 1988 at the initiative of researchers and professionals in French publishing to gather archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses. It also collects material concerning French magazines and various other players in French literary life. It is a not for profit organisation. Since 2004 it has been based at the Abbey d'Ardenne near Caen, Normandy, where it has a library of 80,000 books, and more than 15 km of shelving.
  The reading room is open to researchers.
context_section_description: L'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), translated as The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives,  is a French institution created in 1988 at the initiative of researchers and professionals in French publishing  to gather archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses. It also collects material concerning French magazines and various other players in French literary life. It is a not for profit organisation. Since 2004 it has been based at the Abbey d'Ardenne near Caen, Normandy, where it has a library of 80,000 books, and more than 15 km of shelving.
  The reading room is open to researchers.
caption: Interior of IMEC, near Caen , Normandy
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