Book points in rural areas : country environment, public libraries and cultural development

The ministère de la Culture (Direction du livre et de la lecture) is developing a programme to promote new cultural services : the book points in rural areas. These are various services, organized around a public library, and proposed by a pole of local authorities. They are implemented in less than 2 000 inhabitants districts, and led by professional librarians. This process originates in the deep evolutions of rural areas and in the recent transformations issued of 1996 decentralization. Cultural activities and public libraries have been then deeply modificated.
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