The Henri-Piéron Library. From its creation to the CollEx-Persée projects

The “Bibliothèque Henri-Piéron”, which officially bears this name since 13 March 1962, is the oldest and most important French library devoted to academic psychology. This article tells its history, from its modest beginnings as a laboratory library (1889) to its designation by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation as a “delegated library” for psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience (2017). Considered as a library of note since its beginnings, the “Bibliothèque Henri-Piéron” evolved with these disciplines, notably thanks to the work of Henri Piéron at the Institute of Psychology. Nowadays, its vocation is to pilot, within the framework of the GIS CollEx-Persée, national projects for the conservation and digitisation of collections, and to implement a programme designed to strengthen the visibility of scientific production in psychology and related disciplines through high quality metadata.