The Cité du livre at Aix-en-Provence

The Cité du livre of Aix-en-Provence gathers together, on a vast tract of un-used rehabilitated industrial land, the municipal library of Méjanes and a series of institutional and associative partners, linked by an organisational formula both supple and evolving for putting into operation their communal or specific projects. Establishing a synergy of the problematics of creation and distribution as well as of the cultures and resources of institutions and associations, this formula favours the enlargement of the library's public as much as the direction of citizen's activities. A symbol of this singular development, the Cité du livre has recently received on deposit the Albert Camus collections.
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