• Mondays from 16.00 to 18.00 (on duty - Chantal Le Dantec and Joseph Gonzalez alternately).

• Wednesdays from 17.00 to 18.00 (on duty - Marie-Josée Donjon).

• Thursdays from 15.00 to 17.00 (on duty - Sylvie Pigassou).

Up to September 2009, the Bize-Minervois library was managed by an association "The Friends of Bize-Minervois Library."
Today, the library is managed and operated by the Council (contact point - Véronique Mary).

Present: Véronique Mary, councillor, Luc Coste-Sarguet, President of the association, Joseph Gonzalez, volunteer, Chantal Le Dantec, volunteer, Sylvie Pigassou, volunteer, Marie-Josée Donjon, Janine Massac, Madeleine Duchesne.

After the last General Meeting of the Bize library volunteers on June 11th 1009, it was apparent that, following the resignation of officials and a lack of volunteers, the association could no longer continue without bringing into question the service delivered to the population, namely the ability to borrow books at no cost with volunteers on duty at the library premises.
It was decided not to announce the dissolution of the association immediately, but to inform the public when everything was clearer. The outcome of this was to announce a new General Meeting after the schools returned, to decide on the future of the association.
Today, the association has been dissolved, but three weekly openings are maintained by volunteers, which means the service is retained. The library opens 5 hours per week.
In addition, the volunteers have arranged visits by classes from schools in Bize and the Occitan school Lo Cigal.

The association The Friends of the Library organised the opening hours as well as managing the operations (the facilities for the books available, classification of the books, purchase of new books...) Additionally, the Friends of the Library organised two cultural events per year, in the spring and in the autumn: Poets in Spring and a Reading Festival.

In May 2008, the Friends of the Library invited writer Jean-Pierre GROTTI : A chance to meet at the village hall.

In September 2008, Luc Coste-Sarguet gathered together and presented some notes and thoughts from a visit to the Lithuanian countryside with the association of the Friends of Milosz in Paris.
This was a few months before Vilnius was to be a centre of international recognition in 2009. The towns of Linz in Austria and Vilnius in Lithuania will be the European capitals of culture. Discover the "garden of solitude and water", the poetic home of Oscar Milosz.

The library bus from the Narbonne branch of the Aude Department Library (BDA) visits Bize twice per year. On each occasion, the readers in the village have access to around 500 books, of which half are for children and young people. There is a large choice of novels and comic books, reference books for children of all ages; for the adult readers, there are new arrivals amongst the novels, non-fiction, adult comic books and books on art.
The twice-yearly visits of the library bus combine with a system of shuttles to deliver books on demand. As a service to help the needs of readers, the BDA has launched an internet site , which allows volunteers and library personnel, as well as readers, to view the catalogue of books available to borrow, education, cultural activities, visiting exhibitions... Also, the library readers can order particular books via their local volunteers from the collection of the BDA, which has more than 200,000 titles listed.