Archives départementales du Loiret
- Departmental Archives of Loiret
Address
Orléans
Centre-Val de Loire
45000
France
Phone
+33 (0)2 36 99 25 25
Fax
Mandates/Sources of Authority
Five major missions are assigned to the archive services: collecting, classifying, preserving, communicating and promoting.
Building(s)
The Departmental Archives currently work in three separate buildings. In the summer of 2023, everything will change: a new site will welcome the Department's staff and the public who are curious to discover this third place of culture and exchange, the true memory of the Loiret. Read more...
Conditions of Access
Access to the reading rooms is open to all. Registration at the reception desk is free of charge and compulsory; identification will be requested. Only loose-leaf paper, pencils, cameras and computers without covers may be brought into the reading room. Bags, coats, notebooks, pens, drinks and food must be stored in a locker.
Two staff members provide guidance to readers: they provide information on how to search for references in the inventories or how to use the computers and microfilm readers provided.
Readers may request up to ten documents for consultation per half-day; these are issued every half-hour (except between 12 noon and 2 p.m.); they cannot be borrowed outside the Departmental Archives. Original documents are not released when there is a digital or microfilm copy.
A document can also be reserved in advance by sending an e-mail, at the latest the day before 3 p.m. of the day of communication.
Reproduction Services
Photography of documents is permitted, without flash.
The Departmental Archives have a photographic facility that can reproduce documents insofar as their physical condition permits.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives départementales du Loiret
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives départementales du Loiret grouped under "Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Loiret". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description.