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A few recent books, on "bibliothèques virtuelles" in France: for those of us who (still) like our bits & bytes on printed pages --

• About the Internet --

  • Enjalbert, Gaëlle, Offrir Internet en bibliothèque publique (Paris : Electre-Cercle de la Librairie, 2002). ISBN 2765408440.

  • Stockinger, Peter ed., Portails et collaboratoires pour la recherche et l'enseignement (Paris : Hermès science publications : Lavoisier, 2003). ISBN 2-7462-0766-4. Contributions from Khaled Barouni, Hammou Fadili, Erol Giraudy [et al.].

• Wisdom: of and about librarians and what they do, from the former head of the BnF Cabinet des Cartes et Plans, of the BPI, and of the Conseil Supérieure des Bibliothèques --

  • Melot, Michel, La sagesse du bibliothécaire (Paris : l'Oeil neuf, 2004). ISBN 2-915543-03-8.

  -- and some other thoughts, by others (me too, I have an essay in #2 below), about where the institutions and professions involved may be headed, now, in light of all of the recent changes --

  • Bertrand, Anne-Marie, Les bibliothèques (Paris : Éd. la Découverte, 2004). ISBN 2-7071-4334-0. Nouv. éd.

  • Calenge, Bertrand ed., Bibliothécaire, quel métier ? (Paris : Éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 2004), ISBN 2-7654-0890-4. Collection : Bibliothèques, ISSN 0184-0886.

  • Association des bibliothécaires français, Raphaële Mouren et Dominique Peignet eds., Le métier de bibliothécaire ([Paris] : Éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 2003). 11e éd. ISBN 2-7654-0866-1.

• Recent lists of libraries, a world not only changing generally but also changing its physical locations, and postal and email addresses, and phone and fax numbers, and everything else, very rapidly -- don't go to France thinking that your cherished ancient institution from your 50s / 60s school days remains, unchanged, amid the splendour of its beautiful if dingy old digs --

  • Paris. Direction des affaires culturelles Annuaire 2004 des bibliothèques de la ville de Paris (Paris : Direction des affaires culturelles, 2004). 8e éd. Numéro de "Annuaire des bibliothèques (Paris)" ISSN 1246-7308, 2004 mars.

  • Conférence des grandes écoles, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des centres de documentation (Paris (60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75275 Cedex 06) : Presses de l'École des Mines, 2003). 4e éd. ISBN 2-911762-35-5.

• The new Industries of Information -- and how, and when, and if, "libraries" fit in with all of that --

  • Payen, Emmanuèle, Les bibliothèques dans la chaîne du livre (Paris : Éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 2004). ISBN 2-7654-0888-2 Collection : Bibliothèques, ISSN 0184-0886.

  • Desrichard, Yves, with Yves Alix and Marc Verney, Cinéma en bibliothèque (Paris : Éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 2004). ISBN 2-7654-0892-0

  • Maigret, Eric, Communication et médias (Paris : la Documentation française, 2003). ISBN 2-11-005419-0.

  • Plener, Maud, preface by Yves Gautier, Le livre numérique et l'Union européenne (Paris : L.Harmattan, 2003). ISBN 2-7475-5406-6. Inter-National, Série Sciences-Po Strasbourg.

  • Maisonneuve, Marc, with Philippe Lenepveu, Du catalogue de la bibliothèque aux ressources du web applications documentaires de la génération de liens contextuels (Paris : ADBS Éditions, 2003). ISBN 2-84365-065-8.

• Digitization --

  • Bélisle, Claire, preface by Bertrand Legendre, La lecture numérique : réalités, enjeux et perspectives (Villeurbanne : Presses de l'ENSSIB, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, 2004). ISBN 2-910227-51-0. Collection : Référence, ISSN 1621-3084.

  • Origgi, Gloria, and Noga Arikha eds., Text-e : le texte à l'heure de l'Internet (Paris : Bibliothèque publique d'information-Centre Pompidou, 2003). [colloque virtuel, 15 octobre 2001-mars 2002; organisé par la BPI, l'Euro-Édu, l'Institut Nicod, et al.; communications de Stefana Broadbent, Francesco Cara, Roberto Casati et al.] ISBN 2-84246-065-0. Collection : Études et recherche / Bibliothèque publique d'information, ISSN 0993-8958.

  • Wesreel, Isabelle, and Martine Aubry, La numérisation des textes et des images : techniques et réalisations (Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses de l'université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2003). ISBN 2-84467-050-4. Collection UL3 Travaux et recherches.

  • Juanals, Brigitte, La culture de l'information, du livre au numérique (Paris : Hermès science publications ; Lavoisier, 2003). ISBN 2-7462-0691-9

• The BPI in Paris -- at the Centre Beaubourg, the place where the mimes perform, and all the kids sit out on the plaza in the summer sun -- a little colder in the winter... -- earliest and most famous of the "new" digital libraries in France --

  • Les 25 ans de la BPI : encyclopédisme, actualité, libre-accès : actes du colloque international organisé par la Bibliothèque publique d'information, au Centre Pompidou, les 23 et 24 octobre 2002 (Paris : Bibliothèque publique d'information-Centre Pompidou, 2003). ISBN 2-84246-078-2.

• Library consortia -- one industry's and profession's answer, and increasingly a necessity, in the Digital Information Age --

  • Arot, Dominique, Les partenariats des bibliothèques (Villeurbanne : ENSSIB, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques ; Paris : Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, 2003). ISBN 2-910227-47-2, 2-911127-92-7,

  -- now, why aren't these consortia increasingly trans-national, yet, in our globalizing era?...

• Information Science, in France --

  • Gaussier, Eric, and Marie-Hélène Stéfanini, Assistance intelligente à la recherche d'informations (Paris : Hermès science publications, 2003). ISBN 2-7462-0726-5

  • Denecker, Claire, preface by Paul Thirion, Les compétences documentaires : des processus mentaux à l'utilisation de l'information (Villeurbanne : Presses de l'ENSSIB, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, 2003). ISBN 2-910227-52-9.

  • Chaudiron, Stéphane, Évaluation des systèmes de traitement de l'information (Paris : Hermès science publications, 2004). ISBN 2-7462-0862-8.

  • Ihadjadene, Madjid ed. [Les] systèmes de recherche d'informations, modèles conceptuels (Paris : Hermès science publications, 2004). ISBN 2-7462-0846-6.

• Law & Policy: Europe being the land of Policy, still, a fact unappreciated by the (currently) de-regulated world of telecoms in the US -- it remains to be seen which approach will win out, in the current tug-of-war... "all politics is local"... --

  • Crocq, Isabelle, Régulation et réglementation dans les télécommunications (Paris : Économica, 2004). ISBN 2-7178-4758-8.

  • Dreyer, Emmanuel and Patrick Le Floch eds., Le lecteur : approche sociologique, économique et juridique (Paris ; Budapest ; Torino : l'Harmattan, 2004). ISBN 2-7475-6247-6. Textes issus d'une journée d'étude organisée le 5 décembre 2002 par l'Institut d'études politiques de Rennes.

  • Humbaire, Bernard ed., Le Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information : Genève, 10-12 décembre 2003, Tunis, 16-18 novembre 2005 : sélection de textes officiels (Paris : Ministère des Affaires étrangères, 2003).

  • Dreyer, Emmanuel, introduction by Gérard Cohen - Jonathan, preface by Bernard Beignier, Le dépôt légal, essai sur une garantie nécessaire au droit du public à l'information (Paris : LGDJ, 2003). ISBN 2-275-02342-9.

  • Karaka, Kayhan, Sous protection rapprochée : le Conseil de l'Europe et les médias (Strasbourg : Editions du Conseil de l'Europe, 2003). ISBN 92-871-5248-9.

  • Lévêque, François, and Yann Ménière, Economie de la propriété intellectuelle (Paris : Éditions La Découverte, 2003). ISBN 2-7071-3905-X.

  • Lévy, Pierre, Cyberdémocratie (Paris : Odile Jacob, 2002). ISBN 2738110533.

  -- plus, and finalement --

  • Dejond, Aurélia, preface by Jacques Mercier, La Cyberl@ngue française (Paris : Renaissance du Livre, 2002). ISBN 280460604X.

  -- which asks, "Parlez-vous cyber ?"... sorry, couldn't resist... and good luck cataloging, and indexing, that "@" in the title...

Note:

There are so many online resources, now, for information about the information revolution...

In the apparent absence of any sensible criteria, much less procedures, for separating wheat from chaff, there is a great deal of irrelevant and mis-information, online, as well.

It rarely is a good idea to consult "fans", for objective views of the object of their adorations: convinced internauts for views about the Internet, people who are online for opinions about online access, and so on. Such discussions become circular and self-perpetuating, and self-congratulating, very quickly -- as the Howard Dean Campaign discovered, too late and fatally, during the current US Presidential election race.

So, printed books... One virtue of using the old media, to discuss the new, is that one reaches people who are not yet "fans". Reading and researching the above entries, then, a student is more likely to discover dissenting views, than in the now-multitudinous chat and econference and ejournal resources online. "Household penetration" rates are not 100% yet, even in the very-wired USA, much less in Europe, and not at all in most of the rest of the world. Most "out there" who research still do so in print.

One day the Internet may indeed be invisible and omnipresent -- like television -- and on that day all objectivity about The Nets may be lost, as it has been for television... Maybe it's to the Internet's advantage, then, that so far it is only a partial success: by reading a few printed books about it -- now, while it is not yet "everywhere" and before it is too late -- perhaps we still can spot the pitfalls and correct the hidden dangers.

I wouldn't want to wake up, in a few years, to an entirely-wired world and a digital information life which was not properly "examined" during its construction -- "the unexamined life is not worth living", it is said, and that definitely is my view of the television world. We still have time to make the Internet world something better, I believe. But we'll only do that by getting outside of it and seeing it whole, while we still can. Read books.

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