Who can access the centre?

The library offers different categories of membership
Students: Students of Alliance Française de Bombay have free access to the library.
Individual membership: Those who are not students of Alliance Française de Bombay can become members in order to access the library.
The fees are:

Students and members are entitled to borrow the same number of documents for a duration of 3weeks (2 per type).

Membership Services

Institutional membership: open to institutions, organizations, universities, colleges…
Institutions can access the library on the payment of fees. This would enable them to borrow books, magazines, videocassettes and CDs for a duration of 1 month (6 per type) It is possible for them to sign a special agreement allowing them to borrow maximum 6 videos for 5 weeks.
The fees structure is as follows: yearly: Rs. 3000 /- 6 months: Rs. 1500 /- 3 months: Rs 750.

Reservation: documents can also be reserved by phone, by post or in person. At a time, 2 documents can be reserved (per type, book, video…)

Extension of document: Renewals are done only within the loan term and can be done over the phone, e-mail or in person. They have to be done on the due date or before the due date. The document can be renewed only on the condition that it is not reserved already.


All members and students have to bring their card for borrowing and while returning the document borrowed. Without the card, the issue of any document is impossible.

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