The local library staffs : their profession, their jobs, statutes and trainings

The local library staffs are today at the crossroads : because of their history, of the technical changes, of the implementation of the new politics within local govemments and of the adoption of new statutes, they are passing through a professional identity crisis. Important revisions are necessary, in the middle of tensions between professional logics, management logics, training logics. They are looking for new identity marks because of the disappearance of those which have contributed to reinforce their identity cement. This strongly structured profession has to prepare itself to a deep discussion about all the questions which must be faced by the libraries : objectives, forms of organizations and of work distributions, responsabilities...
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