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"The Central University Library (BCU) operates in the Palace of the Carol I University Foundation, the headquarters of the former Royal Foundations on 1 Boteanu Street, in Revoluții Square. Carol I wanted to establish "an establishment for the benefit of university youth from all the faculties in the country, endowed with a library that is always open". The library has undertaken the mission of training the intellectual elite through grants, student and research fellowships, printing papers, bachelor's theses and doctorates. The land was bought by King Charles I, and the building was built between 1891-1893 according to the plans of the French architect Paul Gottereau (1843-1924). Completed in 1893, equipped and furnished a year later, it was inaugurated by Charles I on March 14, 1895. Later, the building was expanded according to the plans of the same architect. With the change of regime following the Second World War, it became the Central Library of C. I. Parhon University. During the events of December 1989, the building was set on fire, thus destroying the collection of rare books, over 500,000 volumes, approximately 3,700 manuscripts belonging to Eminescu, Sadoveanu, Caragiale, Maiorescu, Blaga or Coșbuc, as well as a lot of rare maps. The reconstruction of the library begins in April 1990 under the auspices of UNESCO. Book donations were made from the country and abroad, almost a million volumes. In June 1994, the library was fully connected to the Internet and a database was created for the Lending Center, thus becoming one of the first computerized university libraries in Romania. The Carol I University Library has a collection of publications on physical support of approximately two million volumes. The library today has 16 branches: Administration and Business, Biology, Chemistry, Law, Philosophy, Physics, Geography and Geology, History, Journalism and Communication Sciences, Letters, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Computer Science, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Sociology and Assistance Social, Political Sciences, Orthodox Theology."

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