In Albi, the bibliobus was replaced by a media abuse that will offer once a week in the neighborhoods, 2500 books, 700CD, 500 films, newspapers and musical scores.
Tour of a bibliobus in the Yvelines. To get closer to the readers, since 1966, the bibliobus go to the communes between ten and twenty thousand inhabitants who do not have a sufficiently developed municipal library and lend directly to the readers. The director of the lending library explains the operation of these booklets and a 74-year-old lady says she is delighted to be able to borrow books from the bookmobile every month because she is not always interested in television.
The camera followed for several days a bibliobus of the central library of Melun during its loan tour through the villages of Seine and Marne. The director of the library reviews the aims and operation of the bibliobus.
For the first time in France a rolling library circulates through the Champagne countryside. It is an innovation created within the framework of rural policy to enable farmers to learn. Books are "rented" at ten cents a volume.
The bibliobus, founded under the leadership of the senator of the Haute-Vienne Georges Lamousse, is a growing success in the department. The increase in the number of readers is impressive. In Roziers-Saint-Georges, a small farming village, the readers are almost all children. These young readers express themselves about their literary tastes and their reader habits. Some are not sure if they want to continue reading because their dad only reads the newspaper...
In Amiens, a service of the bibliobus for the elderly was set up: the carrying of books at home. Agnès Pelce, 86, is happy to find very recent books. Brigitte Flandre, librarian, believes that it is very important not to cut people who have always read from reading.
The bibliobus are no longer in tune with the times and will no longer cross the roads of Calvados...this is the last tour in the Basly region. After forty years of service, libraries, tools for opening up access, are now "beaten" by the Internet, by libraries and their annexes... It is a service that no longer corresponds to today’s libraries, as stated by Manon Bondiguel, librarian, For his part, Jean-Yves Rivallant, a bookmobile driver for 15 years, insists on the importance of this service especially for seniors.
Report on the urban bibliobus of the city of Toulouse. A librarian is interviewed about the loan conditions and the works on the bus. Readers, adults and children, are asked about their tastes and habits as readers.