Round Table Series “The Book in the City”
Round tables on the evolution of public libraries and reading practices, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Directorate General for Media and Cultural Industries/ Book and Reading Service) at the Paris Book Fair 2012.
• The Library, the last local public cultural service?
• Booksellers and librarians, mediation a shared issue?
• Library book purchases: where are we?
• Designing a library for tomorrow
• Should we still be trying to desecrate libraries?
• What reading does to the brain
• What makes kids read?
• The Library in the Digital Cloud
• What economic and legal models for access to digital resources in libraries?