Nubar Library

The Nubar Library was founded in 1928 on the initiative of Boghos Nubar Pacha, in an Art Deco building constructed in 1922 by a group of Armenian developers and designed by architect Levon Nalfiyan. From 1928 to 1951, its management was entrusted to Aram Andonian, then secretary to the Armenian National Delegation in Paris. As director, Aram Andonian collected numerous books, manuscripts, periodicals, archives, photographs, and postcards. Today, the Nubar Library continues to enrich its collections through acquisitions (recent works in Armenian, French, English, Turkish, etc.), which now focus on contemporary history, art history, and Western Armenian literature. The Library also receives donations of family documents (family trees, personal memoirs, and other written testimonies, photographs, etc.), authors' manuscripts, and private correspondence. On November 18, 2020, the Nubar Library was awarded the “Heritage of Regional Interest” label by the Regional Council of Île-de-France. The plaque was inaugurated on April 24, 2021, by Valérie Pécresse, in the presence of AGBU France President Nadia Gortzounian, Hasmik Tolmajian, Armenian Ambassador to France, and CCAF co-presidents Ara Toranian and Mourad Papazian. This label enables the library to obtain funding from the Regional Council for the digitization of its collections. == Funds ==

The library's holdings include: • 43,000 printed works, including numerous Constantinople editions from the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as many works printed in Venice from the 18th to the early 20th centuries; • 800,000 archival documents, including part of the archives of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, an archive on the genocide (the Andonian collection), the AGBU archives, and those of the Armenian National Delegation. Also included are the archives of the Nansen passport for Armenian Refugees, the Zareh Bey Nubar fonds (documents relating to Nubar Pasha's action in Egypt), various correspondence from writers (such as Nichan Béchiktachlian or Zareh Vorpouni) or Orientalist and Armenologist scholars, as well as correspondence from the Nubar Library itself between 1928 and the 1980s; • 1,400 periodical collections, including a large part of the Ottoman Armenian press; • 10,000 original photographic prints, including AGB U's photographic collection of orphans, refugees, and schools founded in the Near East and diaspora after the First World War; • Several hundred manuscripts from the 19th and 20th centuries. == Publications ==

The Nubar Library publishes: • the ''Revue d'histoire arménienne contemporaine'' between 1995 and 2009; • the Revue arménienne des questions contemporaines between 2004 and 2012; • the journal Études arméniennes contemporaines since 2013. == List of directors ==

• 1928-1951: Aram Andonian • 1952-1970: Armenag Salmaslian • 1970-1986: Ardachès Kardachian • 1986-2012: Raymond Kévorkian • 2012-: Boris Adjemian == See also ==