The development of the buildings of the French university libraries since the "rapport Miquel"

Face to the very strong demographic upsurge of the students, and after a complete fifteen years stopping, the Universités 2000s plan has relaunched the construction of university buildings. How the libraries, placed under the responsability of their universities, have been considered within this boosting ? The author compares the German and British libraries with the French ones, and describes, for them, a half-tone situation : constructions, restructuring, and extensions, but in a too limited number and with too small surfaces. There are reasons to hope, where university presidents have accepted to see the reality in the face, but it is above all a bet on the future, that is to say on the capacity of the xiith plan (1999-2003) to take the problem round the waist.
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