How to get a seat in the reading room in the library Sainte Geneviève ?

As many academic libraries of Paris, the library Sainte Geneviève knows many problems because of a very increasing frequenting since a few years. So they decided to create a computerized management of the seats. Every registried reader has a personal reader's card he puts into a bar-code reader before going in the reading room. He may get a seat (anyone seat or a specific one) as far as the obstruction permits it. Different messages may appear on the screen (about of his registration, for example, etc...) The staff has his own station from which he can act if it is necessary. Staff and readers seem to appreciate this system which allows to obtain much more precise statistics.
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