Regional lending libraries : ten years of transformation

Great changes took place in the régional lending libraries during the last ten years : these services, wich were dependent on the ministry of Culture, became in 1986 regional services and discovered, with these new policies, different budgetary structures. This transformation is preceded by experimentations of the State in the eighties : computerisation, development plans,... Far from suffering of these moves, the servicing networks of the little rural districts are knowing a diversification with two essential orientations : an appropriateness to the vocations of the regional councils and the development of original experiences in documentation and search of new publics. However, the means conserve disparities. So many questions about the missions of thèse institutions and French departments persist too.
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