Holdings and Use of CD-ROMs in Children's Libraries: the Médiathèque des enfants de la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

Libraries are increasingly required to enlarge their holdings of multimedia documents, in the form of CD-ROMs. They must allow everyone the opportunity to discover this resource and ask themselves about the role and the place of this support, above all when their clients are predominantly young. After a presentation of electronic publishing for young children (fiction, factual works, games, scholarly documents), this article offers some tracks for reflection on the use of electronic supports at the children's médiathèque de la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, in Paris.
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