The library, created at the same time as the Jean Monnet Foundation in 1978, is a reference library for questions relating to Europe and more particularly to Switzerland.
Its mission is to respond to the information needs of researchers and students and to offer up-to-date and renewed documentation. It reconciles conservation and topical aspects in the European field and offers a diversity of points of view concerning the major issues of Europe, thus providing an equitable representation of these within the collection. The Foundation’s library follows the neutral and apolitical line that prevails at the institutional level.
The library of the Jean Monnet Foundation contains more than 11,200 books, documents, audiovisual materials and manuscripts, acquired through private donations. It is spread over several rooms and the Foundation’s archives. The library of Jean Monnet and other influential political figures can be found there. Since 2020, the works of the Foundation’s library are available in the Renouvaud catalog.