Youth libraries and literary creation: support for product or aid for production?

Editors and authors easily recognise it: youth libraries have a role to play, by the acquisitions that they choose, and by the different actions they take in order to promote works and creators (receptions for authors, literary prizes, exhibitions, book fairs and other increasingly numerous literary events) – a role that is certainly not decisive, but essential for supporting the literary creation of young people. They have also mostly taken up a position against paying for loans. But in fact, rather than publicising or supporting genuine creation for the young, these acts of mediation have as their prime objective the encouragement of children to read.
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