Book and Reading
The DRAC Bretagne supports and accompanies the projects of investment and modernization of municipal, intercommunal and departmental libraries, the development of reading and literary life.
The 2022 Special Library Contest Campaign General decentralisation allocation (DGD) closed on April 29, 2022. Funding application files are to be filed exclusively online.
Public libraries
The DRAC supports public libraries in the region through two mechanisms: the General Decentralization Grant for Libraries (DGD) and the Regional Library Acquisition Fund (FRAB).
The General Decentralization Grant for Libraries (DGD)
Before any request for funding, please contact the DRAC referral service and read the descriptive sheets below.
This investment aid is the subject of loans decentralized to the Prefect of the Region, the amount of which is distributed according to the population, weighted by the need for equipment for public reading libraries.
Marked by what could be called a "biblioboom", Brittany is today in the very first places for the public reading network. Since its establishment on 1 January 1986, this special assistance has enabled the State to allocate more than EUR 60 million in Brittany to municipalities or communities of municipalities or agglomerations. In the areas eligible for the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and the EAGGF (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund), EUR 13.4 million of European appropriations were added. As a result, 310 new libraries have been created or completely restructured—an average of more than 10 per year—using the services of the DRAC, which advises clients and reviews files.
The Book and Reading Service of the DRAC of Brittany participates, in close collaboration with the contracting authority, the elaboration of the cultural project and the architectural programming of the library by establishing a methodological framework that constitutes the basis of future actions. The library’s programming is based on contextualization, of the cultural project as well as financial and human resources.
In recent years, particular attention has been paid to two essential aspects of the development of public reading:
- Projects for the construction and equipping of libraries intercommunity networks and inter-community media libraries benefit from DGD premium rates;
- DGD now takes into account expenses related to the creation of user services who use computers and digitization operations.
It is now possible to draw up an assessment of the action taken to achieve these objectives. In this perspective and in order to strengthen the advice to the project management, the book and reading service of the DRAC has developed sheets of recent and innovative libraries that have benefited from DGD grants and which are part of one or more of the orientations conducive to the development and democratization of reading, namely:
- An architectural achievement and a quality interior design
- Designing a social space
- The proposal for a diversified documentary offer
- Taking into account new communication and information technologies and their exploitation
- Development of services provided to users (information, training, assistance...)
- The integration of the media library in an inter-communal project within the framework of a community project management or within inter-communal networks of libraries
You will find a list (not exhaustive and which will be enriched as and when) of innovative libraries (excluding Brest and Rennes, which will be the subject of specific sheets given their importance):
- In municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants
- In municipalities between 5,000 and 10,000 inhabitants
- In municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants
Reading in Brittany: a territorial anchorage
The Regional Library Acquisition Fund (FRAB)
The State and the Region have by convention created the FRAB to support the acquisition or restoration of rare, old or valuable materials by municipal or inter-municipal libraries.
Support for literary life and the development of reading
Territory-Reading Contracts (CTL)
With the establishment of CTL , the DRAC develops a policy of contractualisation with local authorities and public institutions of territorial cooperation to promote a structuring of public reading networks and the development of partnership actions between actors cultural, educational, social and economic aspects of books and reading in the same territory.
Communities interested in a CTL are invited to take the tether of the DRAC.
Literary life and mediation
The DRAC focuses its assistance on cultural structures in the regions that set up a literary project throughout the year and on writer’s residencies with aspects of literary creation and cultural action.
Book economy
The LiR label (Independent reference bookshop) is issued by the Minister of Culture on the report of the President of the National Book Centre.
It distinguishes bookshops for the quality of their assortment, their role of advice and cultural animation, Labeled bookshops can also benefit from the exemption of the territorial economic contribution (CET) by decision of the local authorities.
As of January 1, 2022, 27 bookstores are certified in Brittany.
Contact information for the service:
Enora Oulc'hen - Counsellor - 02 99 29 67 88
Chantal Vaugeois - Assistant, Library Grants ( DGD ) - 02 99 29 67 08
Instruction sheets and files:
- Library aids
- Support for written heritage
Regional Library Acquisition Fund (FRAB):
- Support for literary life