The tariffing and its masks

The principle of the free public libraries services, based on the tradition of the democratic ideals of the French 18th century, is again debated today. In the name of pragmatism and efficiency, the systematization of tariffing is henceforth more and more frequently presented as inevitable. This tendency rests however on an argumentation which ignores sometimes the reality so administrative as financial and social one. But above all it arises some questions that the librarianship can't be unaware of. May one reduce the relationship between the library and its users to a logic of marketing, forgetting the politic and social ambition which founds it ? Is it possible that an efficient management depends on another thing than the objectives defined from the responsabilities of an institution financed essentially by public funds ?
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