The Central lending library attends the fair...

This article is a study of the effort made by the central lending library of the Aveyron department to incite farmers - who represent most of the active population - to use its services. After attending agricultural fairs regularly, and remaining in contact with the various professional organisms, the library can now identify the reading needs of that public : a collection of technical books has been therefore established in order to comply properly with the documentation request in the fields of training and development. This collection is enhanced by an agricultural information network (agricultural colleges, house of agriculture,...) to which it brings the largest vulgarisation scale; for that matter, the agricultural books of the central lending library are indicated in the nearly-ready databank of the agricultural council for the Aveyron department.
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