The multimedia library examined

Multimedia libraries appeared in France at the end of the 70s. Fifteen years later, how can we analyse this fact ? Are multimedia libraries only the new face of public updated libraries, with a need for a change of their image and name ? Or are they cultural and specific suggestions ? This article examines the very concept of multimedia library, as well as the effects induced by the new forms of the offer : multimedia library and quest for modernity, multimedia library and documentary collection, multimedia library and conviviality, multimedia library and time. Whatever their name may be, do not the public-multimedia libraries have to consider the objectives to reach, the priorities to defend, the stakes they keep with them ?
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