" Lecture populaire " and " lecture ouvrière " : two faces of the French reading system.

The public libraries system that is developing since 1945 is a result of combined activities of several libraries which had been created at first to hold different positions and to serve different people. Here is an analysis of the " bibliothèque populaire " and the " bibliothèque ouvrière " : how they have met in a common conception of mass reading.
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