The LILLIAD Innovation Learning Centre is a brand new building, incorporating a refurbishment of the former Central Library of Lille University of Science and Technologies, and an extension linked to the existing building. LILLIAD has been a project developed over ten years and opened in September 2016. The old library The heart of LILLIAD is the Central Library built in the 1960s on the ′Cité Scientifique′ campus in Villeneuve d′Ascq in the suburbs of Lille. The campus is located outside the city of Lille, far from the city centre. The new campus is in the countryside and is based on the ...