Centre national du livre

The Centre national du livre (CNL) is a French établissement public à caractère administratif.

The CNL[1] is placed under the administrative supervision of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (Direction générale des Médias et des Industries culturelles [fr], Service du Livre et de la Lecture [fr]).

For example, the CNL grants aid for the opening or development of certain public libraries or to encourage the creation of specific collections.

It also helps university libraries to acquire high-quality scientific documents published in French.

By 2022, the CNL will have organised 200 residencies in schools, 500 author masterclasses in secondary schools, supported 1,000 events organised by civil society throughout France and launched new programmes such as the "Goncourt des détenus" (Goncourt for detainees)[4] in some thirty prisons or the "Quart d'heure national de lecture" (National Quarter-Hour of Reading)[5] on 10 March.