Montauroux – Municipal Media Library
Montauroux 83440 – Var Population: 5,759 (2012)
The municipality of Montauroux is the largest agglomeration in the canton of Fayence. It is a member of the Community of Communes of the country of Fayence which brings together eight municipalities and cantons. Montauroux has experienced a significant demographic development over the past ten years. The city was forced to adapt its services to this new demographic and social context.
Montauroux benefits from a diverse cultural landscape including a leisure centre, a cinema, a crèche, two schools and several associations. The construction of a media library thus adds to the communal cultural environment.
The previous library on Place Mirabeau was a great success. It had succeeded in developing its cultural offer and broadening its scope of action. But, it was no longer enough to meet the demand of the municipalities of the canton of Fayence in full demographic growth. Moreover, the book chain was relatively small in the area, with the only bookstore in the canton located in Montauroux.
The new media library, inaugurated on 7 March 2014, is located in a 1,800 m² building that is a true cultural, educational and sporting hub. In addition to the 750 m² media library, the multi-purpose centre hosts a games library, a film library, a music school, a dance school, a gym, a youth hostel, a computer school and a school for images.
The cultural dynamic of the place is amplified, moreover, by the immediate proximity of schools, cinema, tennis center, multipurpose hall and the structure of reception of leisure in the city center.
The media library still offers, in line with the actions of the old library, drawing workshops for children as well as reading workshops for children and adults. It also maintains its partnerships with the crèche, the Friendship Club and schools.
By its location, the media library will be able to offer its users computer training but also services related to the presence of the school of the image as well as the school of music.
Finally, the Media Library wishes to develop its multimedia proposals by making available to users numerous computers providing access to the Internet as well as digital tablets, creating a computer room for documentary research and installing a wifi network.
As part of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Fayence, the media library is part of the MEDIATEM network. She wishes to establish a collaboration with the other libraries of the canton. The media library also participates in the network of the departmental media library of the Var.
Architect : Provençal Architecture J. Boyer
Size : 750 m²
Construction cost : €1,638,525 excluding tax
State aid (DRAC) €550,125 excluding tax (45%)
Cost of equipment and furniture €127,652 excluding tax
State aid (DRAC) €51,061 excluding tax (40%)
Computerization cost : €60,420.70 excluding tax
State aid (DRAC) €48,336 excluding tax (80%)
- Sheet produced by Charlotte Ferrari, intern at the DRAC PACA with the advisor for books and reading as part of a license of Public Management at the IMPGT, Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance, Aix-Marseille University.
Municipal media library
Ste Brigitte Street
Tel. 04 94 85 02 31 - montauroux@mediatem.fr
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