Behind the Statutes, Ideology?: the Statutory Texts and their Usage

The statutory texts defining the public service of libraries in France present a dated image of the library (as stock), of librarianship (as centred on cataloguing), of the organization (as pure hierarchical stack) to the point where one of the essential missions of libraries (mediation) is cast onto the margins. They are more a constraint than an aid in the management of personnel. This is in fact an identifying or functional usage, either from the perspective of the defence of a body, or in the sense of the definition of a profession. While guarding a prudent usage of these texts, it is allowable to desire their modernization.
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