The cross-fertilization of the U.S. Public library model and the French documentation model (IIB, French correspondent of FID) through the French professional associations between World War I and World War II
✍ Scribed by Fayet-Scribe, Sylvie
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
The aim of this article is to study the beginning and 1993) as has that of the related associations. However, growth of associations for documentation in France after the four-volume Histoire des bibliothe `ques franc ¸aises, World War I: i) The Bureau Bibliographique de France with its 174 contributors, is a seminal reference work.
(BBF) created in 1899, which is the French affiliate of Similarly, the publications of Maurice Agulhon (1977) the International Institute of Bibliography (IIB) founded and Jean-Pierre Rioux (1984, 1988) have helped us gain a in 1895; ii) Union Franc ¸aise des Organismes de Documentation (UFOD) founded in 1932, which grouped wider knowledge of 19th-and 20th-century associations. French specialized libraries together; and iii) L'Associa-Sociologists have delved further into this domain, with tion pour le De ´veloppement de la Lecture Publique particular emphasis on historical sociology. Genevie ve (ADLP) born in 1936, which promoted public libraries in Poujol (1981) demonstrated the importance of people's France. This presentation investigates three avenues: It education associations in France and the gatekeeping role shows the aims of these associations and, in a biographical manner, the ideas of their founders, with particular they play, vis-a -vis the official authorities. In the fall of emphasis on the fundamental role of technical and in-1996, Poujol is to publish a biographical dictionary of dustrial documentation and the involvement of IIB. It deleaders in people's education and cultural movements.
termines the links between specialized libraries (called Among the 550 entries, 40 or so are devoted to key figures Centres de Documentation in France) and public librarin the field of public libraries and information services.
ies developed by active social librarians. It shows the results of the influences of founders' ideas after World What interests us here is the fact that the same people, War II: The development of public libraries and the crefor the most part, were responsible for the development ation of schools for documentalists.