Our own favorite bookstore here in Noe Valley USA just closed -- finally and for good -- and I have nearly 200 digital "ebooks" stored somewhere out in my Amazon Internet "cloud", now...
The French approach: somewhat similar, somewhat by contrast --
"Indies online : coming to your home"
By Frédérique Roussel, "Libraires en ligne : ça arrive près de chez vous", in Libération, 4 avril
[tr. JK, excerpts:]
> It's what we needed... The web-portal of the independent French booksellers finally has lifted its iron curtain. Twelve years after the dawning of the idea, in discussions among French book dealers... Eleven years after the arrival of Amazon in France... After all the lost time, due to the Dotcom Bubble, the difficulty of uniting financial people, and the building of consensus within a shattered, overloaded, and above all very individualistic profession... There have been defections, and oppositions. There was the headache of dreaming-up a complicated technical platform. The task has not been easy. The imminent launch has been reported again and again. But "1001libraires.com", a name designed to enchant an internaute, finally is here.
> Behind this homepage lies a solid organization : solid financing -- 2.2 million euros, in the form of zero-interest loans from notably the Centre national du livre for 500,000 euros -- plus funds provided by 36 bookstores and associations of bookstores. At its opening, the website counts 65 bookstore members, with an objective of having 200 within three months...
> So, from today, the internaute can order printed and digital books from a catalog of 60,000 titles. He may receive them through the postal mail, within 24 hours, or he may reserve them at the nearest member-bookstore within two hours.
> Facing up to the big online sellers, such as Amazon or La FNAC... That is the point made by Gilles de la Porte, president of the corporation behind 1001libraires.com, and former owner of the bookstore la Galerne at Le Havre : he declares, "We remain in close contact with our readers, and our location services send buyers into physical bookstores." Across France 250 booksellers are designated, as of the opening of the service.
> A third feature of 1001libraires.com is designed to circumvent the traditional marketing system, using content generated by the booksellers themselves, in some very original programming, and involving the booksellers -- the 1001libraires.com service, M@gazette, offers seven monthly video and audio podcasts, for example "Quinzaine des libraires" partnering with the weekly "Quinzaine littéraire", also "Digitales sur le livre numérique", "Essai libre sur sur les sciences humaines", "Gonzo Bizarro sur la BD"...
> So, the independent bookstore in France makes its own Amazon...
> But this service emphasizes physical proximity and consultation, also that it will be around for the digital book, as well, where and when the paper train has left the station... "We must embrace these things," adds Gilles de la Porte, "the bookstore no longer will exist if we refuse to"...
> Detractors are numerous : some protest against all the money injected into a "machine", here -- others say the consultation services of booksellers might be better-offered via better techniques -- still others worry that this cooperative site removes the booksellers themselves to positions of being mere spectators. And there are those who worry over the fundamental purpose of 1001libraires.com : to outdo Amazon and others like it -- a message contained in its slogan, "The site which moves faster than the Internet" -- that remains to be seen, let's look again in 10 years.
URL for the Libération article : http://www.ecrans.fr/Libraires-en-ligne-ca-arrive-pres,12419.html
URL for 1001Libraires.com : http://www.1001Libraires.com
--oOo--
Note: speed kills...
The race is not always to the swift, sometimes it is to the wise...
France still has some indie booksellers, for example... In California, where I write this, indie bookstores are closing, in large numbers and rapidly. As I said initially, here, one of my own favorite "locals" disappeared just the other day.
In fact a youthful dream which I and my wife long cherished, to occupy and amuse our old age -- the management of an indie bookstore ourselves -- appears to be vanishing, in the USA. More likely nowadays we'd have to found and run herd on our own digital distribution empire, the way Jeff Bezos has, and worry more about profit-and-loss and cloud computing and gigantic server arrays and distribution centers, than about "children's rooms" and "poetry sections", and "small press" and "remainders", and whether to serve coffee and what to do about coffee spills, as we once imagined.
There still are some exceptions left in the USA, though. One store's loss is another's gain, perhaps...
Just around the corner from the indie bookstore here which closed, is another which appears to be doing fabulously well, and now may do even better. Perhaps this is, then, as the economists nearly always say, simply a consolidation & realignment, and not really a paradigm shift.
Perhaps there is opportunity in all of this, that is, for the few who remain: for a small indie bookstore which can find its own market niche, and which "gets" the Internet and digital, and which can figure out how to make money itself from e-books: a small indie which can find and understand new forms of publication, perhaps -- smaller distribution activities, maybe -- small press, local press, local news, academic publishing -- healthy arenas from which the big online retailers could not squeeze their "economies of scale", but which nevertheless could support a small shop and online service, or a few of them.
So many people people are writing and publishing now : everyone, now, everywhere, has a desktop or/and a laptop or/and a palmtop or/and particularly a mobile -- information overload quickly is becoming information inundation, a flood.
So in all of that there are new opportunities for people specialized in controlling or at least channeling such floods: for librarians and libraries, for indie booksellers and indie bookstores -- helped greatly, perhaps, by online services such as 1001libraires.com. As a customer, at least, I gladly would give much to find the camaraderie, and warmth, and easychairs and accompanying coffee and cookies, of the bookstores of my childhood, amid the so-far industrialized e-publishing of today.
They're getting there, with Amazon's "cloud", and Starbucks' "Mobile Card" barcode coffee purchasing, and everyone's Inter-networking of everything. But they're not there yet.
It seems to me too that the long-predicted "decentralization" direction of digital is reversing now, in fact, providing new bookstore opportunities. For some years we have had telecommuting and teleworking opportunites, provided by The Digital, moving many of us to suburbs and small towns and into extensive travel even overseas. Now, though, people appear to want again to live in, and spend more of their personal and professional time in, the Central City. Perhaps we've so automated the back office and routine functions of so much, using our new digital technologies so well, as firms like Amazon and Starbucks have, that we're now free once more to seek real face-time with one another: to live in the center of Big Cities where our friends are, to spend hours lounging around with those friends in city parks, and coffee shops, and in user-friendly bookstores again.
That is what the 20-somethings do now increasingly in San Francisco, anyway: the kids who work for Google and Facebook and Apple and the others -- those firms' large home offices are located down the bay from here, in Silicon Valley -- but their employees all live up here in San Francisco, where there is truly "social" life for them. They may take the GoogleBus down to Mountain View when they have to: the giant vehicles run every 15 minutes in the mornings from Noe Valley, a 45-minute ride, and legend says they have one plug for wifi and another for caffeine, at each seat on-board... But more and more of their work week is spent at and around home where their friends are, now, here in the city. This also is true perhaps, and perhaps increasingly as well, in Manhattan, in central London, in central Paris, all of which are inter-connected Global Cities -- per Saskia Sassen's and other urbanologists' musings about this -- seeing a renaissance of central city property values and services now. So maybe there is simply a new and increasing need, for a new kind of "bookstore", in such places.
In the meantime, then, we all wrestle now with e-text:
* auto-capitalization and auto-correction and auto-spelling and auto-other-things... On my iPad, the text I type, "within two hours", but this magically and invisibly and maddeningly becomes, "within two horsings" -- the race truly is not always to the swift... -- and mY caPitaLiZation does fuNny thiNgs -- and my French words become approximations en américain, while if I hit a wrong keyboard button the reverse just-as-mysteriously occurs; and
* e-text, the "words", themselves... I once was asked to review a book printed by a distinguished English press, and I found basic copyedit errors in every paragraph, in some paragraphs in every sentence, within some sentences several. The distraction was so great that I reviewed the editors rather than the text, and my review was turned down. But it made me keenly appreciate what has gone before, in publishing: that particular press long was known for its editorial excellence, and has slipped -- other presses which do this better, still, are that much more appreciated. No, digital e-publishing is not just a matter of throwing texts "out there", scanning and ocr'ing and seeing who salutes. And yes, publishers in the past have earned their keep: if not necessarily the 95% of proceeds which some have claimed, at least the 85% claimed by most -- good editing, among other publishers' significant contributions, is hard and important work; and,
* scanning : Amazon and Google and Gallica and others all do wonderful jobs, with their scanning. The imperfections of the process still show up in strange ways, though. To anyone who enjoyed a mature 20th century print publishing industry, working with ancient well-known texts which a 1950s copyeditor practically could recite by heart as he labored, nowadays it comes as some surprise to see Jane Eyre for example exclaim, "I shirted fields, anhedges", and we realize that the scanner simply slipped, or it tripped over old tiny type on yellowed paper -- this happens more frequently, now, not only because of tired copyeditors' eyes but because we are in the Age of Incunabula of e-text's new technologies, and mistakes will happen with new things.
So perhaps it's just nostalgia -- my longing for the old user-very-friendly bookshops in which I used to spend happy afternoons -- or perhaps it's the cusp of the newest wave, and the very latest changes. As the commentators are saying about Fukushima Dai-Ichi's new wave unknowns too, now, and about 1001libraire.com, we'll know in 10 years.
Happy reading.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
FYI France (sm)(tm) -- books and libraries and reading,
on the Internet and otherwise, all located in France
-- see also fyifrance.com, or Facebook Jack Kessler's Notes
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
FYI France : Oradour sur Glane, Bibliothèque
FYI France (since 1992) -- http://www.fyifrance.com/Fyarch/fy110315.htm
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on March 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/4fz5ty4
Somewhat in need, this week, of examples of honorable people doing wise things, I come across one of many sterling websites offered by the French -- and offer it here as a prime example of how physical and digital sites combine well, in digital library information services nowadays --
--oOo--
* Oradour sur Glane, Bibliothèque
W3: http://www.oradour.org/index.php?rubrique=8
[See links to both the following at the URL below:]
GeoRef: 45|55|52.45| N,01|01|58.40|E(GoogleEarth)
GeoRef: (WikiMapia)
[tr. JK] "Around 2000 works and 300 periodicals are available for consultation in the library. This includes historical reference works and numerous personal accounts of the Second World War. The library also holds books on contemporary wars, reflections on violence and on memory, a notion increasingly considered in close relation with historical writing. Research works in German and in English also are available. The catalog is being digitized. It is anticipated that the catalog will be available online."
* Fonds ouvert : "This collection is composed essentially of copies or archival works from institutions such as the Musée Nationale de la Résistance, the Musée de la Résistance et de la déportation à Toulouse, the Archives départementales de la Haute-Vienne, or the Archives municipales de Limoges. One also can find documentation, books and book copies, news clippings and periodicals. Several 'original' archives also are contained in the collection."
See : Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour-sur-Glane, Centre de Documentation, Archives, Fonds Ouvert, Études et documentation rassemblées, Depuis 2001, Répertoire numérique détaillé provisoire (Mars 2007) Mise à jour effectuée par Céline Deveaux.
http://www.oradour.org/telechargements/File/fonds_ouvert_modif.pdf
* Fonds privé : [Remarkable finding-aid descriptions online here of the personal side of life under the Occupation. JK]
La série FP regroupe tous les fonds privés (dons de particuliers):
1 FP : Pièces isolées
2 FP : Fonds Marguerite Simon
3 FP : Fonds Léopold Rechossière
4 FP : Fonds Haïm Wajnberg
5 FP : Fonds ANFMOG / Association nationale
des familles des martyrs d'Oradour-sur-Glane.
6 FP : Fonds René Besse
7 FP : Fonds Laurent Taveau
8 FP : Fonds Jean Henry
9 FP : Fonds Georges Magnane
10 FP : Fonds Erich Flogaus
11 FP: Fonds Jacqueline Pinède
The above now is installed, complete with interactive links and texts, at the following address:
http://fyifrance.com/fyi1pli3.htm#OradoursurGlaneBib
--oOo--
A Note: about earthquakes & tsunamis & radiation & memory --
My thought is that the sheer nobility of what is commemorated above, here, will be of interest to some -- also the controversy, as the appreciation of Les Lieux de Mémoire of modern France, of which Oradour sur Glane is one of the leading examples, has changed several times, over 50 years, and deserves consideration once again as always -- every nation has its Scoundrel Times, occasionally, and it is nice to remember that occasionally there have been genuine heroes too.
And, simply from a bibliographic point of view, that such a cultural monument should nowadays be so accessible... I was greatly moved, when I first read the accounts of the Second World War and of the Résistance, as a young boy back in the 1950s -- and then when I saw some of the real evidence of "all that", during my first personal visits to Europe a decade later -- that these memories have been kept alive, but also now made so accessible, to so many, is one of our modern marvels now 60 or 70 years later, I believe. So much gets forgotten, so quickly and completely.
There are "written" and "digital" resources, then -- also profound physical evidence -- at "Oradour sur Glane". View the website on GoogleEarth, visit the physical place, read the "written" record, dial-up / log into the "digital" -- there are many ways to "remember" a thing, and so many more of them are available, now, than there used to be.
So, perhaps humanity will do a better job of "remembering" its past, now -- perhaps not, as we are seeing this week, so sadly, in Fukushima-ken and Miyagi-ken and maybe even soon in Tokyo if the winds blow wrong -- but at least the French, at Oradour sur Glane, have made a good effort to remember, using all the old and new media available. One hopes that the rest of us will do the same now, regarding "nuclear energy" and the many other issues presenting themselves to all of us this week in Japan. Rarely do things happen for the very first time.
And it is not enough, to have simply a flood of digital "data" -- we need to add knowledge, to that data, so that it truly becomes "information" -- and then we need to add experience, to that, at least in memory and preferably hands-on, to transmute that information-overload flood into true "wisdom"...
We must learn, from our data and our science: we need good "information", and true "wisdom". We are not there yet, it seems, with nuclear energy; one hopes that we will get there soon.
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on March 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/4fz5ty4
Somewhat in need, this week, of examples of honorable people doing wise things, I come across one of many sterling websites offered by the French -- and offer it here as a prime example of how physical and digital sites combine well, in digital library information services nowadays --
--oOo--
* Oradour sur Glane, Bibliothèque
W3: http://www.oradour.org/index.php?rubrique=8
[See links to both the following at the URL below:]
GeoRef: 45|55|52.45| N,01|01|58.40|E(GoogleEarth)
GeoRef: (WikiMapia)
[tr. JK] "Around 2000 works and 300 periodicals are available for consultation in the library. This includes historical reference works and numerous personal accounts of the Second World War. The library also holds books on contemporary wars, reflections on violence and on memory, a notion increasingly considered in close relation with historical writing. Research works in German and in English also are available. The catalog is being digitized. It is anticipated that the catalog will be available online."
* Fonds ouvert : "This collection is composed essentially of copies or archival works from institutions such as the Musée Nationale de la Résistance, the Musée de la Résistance et de la déportation à Toulouse, the Archives départementales de la Haute-Vienne, or the Archives municipales de Limoges. One also can find documentation, books and book copies, news clippings and periodicals. Several 'original' archives also are contained in the collection."
See : Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour-sur-Glane, Centre de Documentation, Archives, Fonds Ouvert, Études et documentation rassemblées, Depuis 2001, Répertoire numérique détaillé provisoire (Mars 2007) Mise à jour effectuée par Céline Deveaux.
http://www.oradour.org/telechargements/File/fonds_ouvert_modif.pdf
* Fonds privé : [Remarkable finding-aid descriptions online here of the personal side of life under the Occupation. JK]
La série FP regroupe tous les fonds privés (dons de particuliers):
1 FP : Pièces isolées
2 FP : Fonds Marguerite Simon
3 FP : Fonds Léopold Rechossière
4 FP : Fonds Haïm Wajnberg
5 FP : Fonds ANFMOG / Association nationale
des familles des martyrs d'Oradour-sur-Glane.
6 FP : Fonds René Besse
7 FP : Fonds Laurent Taveau
8 FP : Fonds Jean Henry
9 FP : Fonds Georges Magnane
10 FP : Fonds Erich Flogaus
11 FP: Fonds Jacqueline Pinède
The above now is installed, complete with interactive links and texts, at the following address:
http://fyifrance.com/fyi1pli3.htm#OradoursurGlaneBib
--oOo--
A Note: about earthquakes & tsunamis & radiation & memory --
My thought is that the sheer nobility of what is commemorated above, here, will be of interest to some -- also the controversy, as the appreciation of Les Lieux de Mémoire of modern France, of which Oradour sur Glane is one of the leading examples, has changed several times, over 50 years, and deserves consideration once again as always -- every nation has its Scoundrel Times, occasionally, and it is nice to remember that occasionally there have been genuine heroes too.
And, simply from a bibliographic point of view, that such a cultural monument should nowadays be so accessible... I was greatly moved, when I first read the accounts of the Second World War and of the Résistance, as a young boy back in the 1950s -- and then when I saw some of the real evidence of "all that", during my first personal visits to Europe a decade later -- that these memories have been kept alive, but also now made so accessible, to so many, is one of our modern marvels now 60 or 70 years later, I believe. So much gets forgotten, so quickly and completely.
There are "written" and "digital" resources, then -- also profound physical evidence -- at "Oradour sur Glane". View the website on GoogleEarth, visit the physical place, read the "written" record, dial-up / log into the "digital" -- there are many ways to "remember" a thing, and so many more of them are available, now, than there used to be.
So, perhaps humanity will do a better job of "remembering" its past, now -- perhaps not, as we are seeing this week, so sadly, in Fukushima-ken and Miyagi-ken and maybe even soon in Tokyo if the winds blow wrong -- but at least the French, at Oradour sur Glane, have made a good effort to remember, using all the old and new media available. One hopes that the rest of us will do the same now, regarding "nuclear energy" and the many other issues presenting themselves to all of us this week in Japan. Rarely do things happen for the very first time.
And it is not enough, to have simply a flood of digital "data" -- we need to add knowledge, to that data, so that it truly becomes "information" -- and then we need to add experience, to that, at least in memory and preferably hands-on, to transmute that information-overload flood into true "wisdom"...
We must learn, from our data and our science: we need good "information", and true "wisdom". We are not there yet, it seems, with nuclear energy; one hopes that we will get there soon.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
FYI France : Digital tortoise or digital hare?
FYI France (since 1992) -- http://www.fyifrance.com/Fyarch/fy110215.htm
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on February 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/4z2q2dn.
Regarding the "orphans" -- the legally and financially dispossessed, of the 20th c. and future digital worlds -- the books / texts no one claims, or their cousins no one wants either, hidden in the vast library treasuries now being digitized by so many...
The French today, le 10 February 2011, announced their approach to these problems, see below -- it is a brave declaration, well worth reading, as much for its "vive la différence" aspects as for what it both says and does not say.
Some comment:
* Approaches: "top=>down" very much versus "bottom=>up"
The above fairly characterizes a fundamental difference in approach, between the US and the Rest of the World Including France, in these and many other matters. And it is a difference best remembered on both sides, although often glossed-over, forgotten, or even never-known.
The French here are looking to their highest levels -- their august national library, their publishers' association, their national and supra-national governments -- for leadership, in digitization. This is regulation-before-invention, rationality-before-impulse -- "all is forbidden which is not permitted", perhaps, as the oldest saying about all this goes...
The US approach could not be more different: "over here", instead, two young Stanford graduate students, gangs of free-wheeling "venture capitalists" operating far outside the bounds of State-regulated "banking" -- a virtual and real and very expensive maelstrom of inventive activity, conducted by a horde of mere kids (think of young Hewlett & Packard, Jobs & Wozniack, Brin & Page, Doerr fresh from college, Gates before he'd even finished, Zuckerburg ditto) all of them far too young at the time to have come up against any real "State regulation", yet, more serious than a pot bust or a parking ticket anyway, then many hectic deadlines and midnight sessions and much "labor rights" insecurity, "only the paranoid survive", and tremendous excitement... There is no "business as usual", in US hitech innovation: little of the "regulation" or "rationality" which the French so value, and absolutely no "métro, boulot, dodo".
China is different in all this, from the US, Japan is different, India is different although more like the US than some of the others are, perhaps. So thinking of France, a nation so like the US and yet so different, may help us to appreciate how un-like the US all the others really are, too -- may enable us to take such differences less for-granted than we often do, in the hitech marvels currently pouring forth from the US and out upon the rest of the world, now.
* Marketing
If there is one characteristic of the US approach really not understood or even permitted, in most "foreign" places, it is "le marketing". In US usage, the term describing and encouraging the private "corporations", such as Google and Apple, which lead in these digitization efforts, is "marketing-led": in a US firm, per the US "business" schools, marketing must be everything -- if you can't "sell" it you shouldn't "do" it -- it's a way of characterizing the customer's input, or the manipulation of same, in design and operations and all aspects of the firm, an outgrowth of the "customer is king" mantra of the older Horatio Alger commercial generation in the US.
But nothing could be more "foreign" to the French approach, here or generally. Digitization of their precious texts is motivated not by "marketing" but by various forms of altruism -- history, philosophy, notions of the value of "reading" and the necessity of "education" -- mention "marketing" and the folks in France involved in these matters literally will not know what you mean, as to them that is merely an instrumental, operational idea, more like "typing", or "filing", the idea that "marketing" could be central or a motivation or an end-in-itself, to the French is very foreign and the very strangest...
* Money
Unless it's "monetize"... The French are no strangers to either term -- Paris houses one of Europe's best and biggest international business schools. But in France, as in most non-US places, it's not "marketing" or "money" which drive book digitization efforts, for example, but "patrimoine culturel".
Whereas in the US, "it's the money"... The younger Venture Capitalist Generation's mantra, this time, chanted repeatedly into the ear of the even-younger Graduate Student Corporate Founder, "Monetize! Monetize! Monetize!"...
To foreigners this preoccupation is a mystery, while in the US it is the essence: "The business of America is business", as one US national president put it succinctly.
* Floods and Famines
Now then comes the problem, though: there must, it seems, be room for more than one approach.
Because things have Globalized, now: like it or not, for both us and the French, and the other Europeans, and the folks in India, and the teenager in Urumchi in China, doing research for her term paper & texting her friends & shopping at Victoria's Secret, all via her cellphone...
Also because there is a new flood of all this on its way, now...
The "information overload", predicted from the "computers" of the 1980s and 1990s, was just "Flood 1.0" -- an initial inundation, one coped-with, moderately well, by then-new tools such as "personal computers", and by hypertext and information search & retrieval and The WorldWideWeb, and by Jerry's List, then Yahoo, Google's infamous algorithm, and decades of hitech development.
Now, though, from outside of the "computer" world and to a great extent unanticipated by it -- "from Left Field", to use the US baseball-analogy -- comes the newly-Globally-omnipresent "mobile" telephony, and its possibilities for communicating via Internet. The "power of many" just got graphic demonstration in the images from Cairo, repeating Teheran, and the Obama and Dean campaigns, and Manila's "People Power", and so many other recent instances.
The use of "mobiles", in finding and retrieving and using and creating raw "data" -- and then, hopefully, useful "information" too -- is the information overload "Flood 2.0" just-now breaking.
However many "computer" users there are now or ever will be, Globally, there are far more "mobile" users now -- and the two digital worlds, "computer" and "mobile", now are merging, into user networks capable of producing virtual firestorms of data, and many unpredictable consequences.
As all of us who followed Cairo events on Twitter et al. over the last few weeks can attest...
Typical GoogleSearch retrievals of i.e. "3,439,000 results" are about to jump a thousand-fold, then -- already we don't really understand at all why "#1" floated to the top, of our particular retrievals-heap -- Google says their algorithm knows, but that she's just not telling -- imminently, though, soon retrieving 1 out of "3,439,000,000+" instead, we'll _never_ be able to find or evaluate or use anything, if we don't start thinking outside of our old "computer"-era boxes pretty soon.
* Of Tortoises and Hares
Which brings us back to the French, here, and to their "different" approach -- one which, I am suggesting, stands for similarly-"different" approaches to be found elsewhere, all over the newly-Globalizing world in fact...
Plenty of sterile debate takes place, in hitech, about who was "first" and who is "fastest": sterile because most of it is circular -- where knowledge is additive, identifying origins is an arbitrary matter of deciding where to draw the line -- whether at a certain coffee shop in Silicon Valley, or at John von Neumann or Lady Lovelace, or at the invention of the "zero".
But the French have held their own, in this history: for instance their Minitel offered "online graphics", and "commercial applications", and "general public access", all long before the US Internet did -- back when all these activities still were illegal on the Internet, in fact. Early French contributions did not end, or even begin, at Descartes...
And one of the first among non-anglophone nations to try at least to adopt the early and still-anglophone ASCII-only Internet was France: this despite the many battles -- over "accents aigüs" and "OSI protocol wars" and "droit de copie" and the fascinating "droit moral", through which M. Victor Hugo still "owns" a slice of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to the eternal mystification of Americans, and now over "Google the phenomenon" -- the battles have been part of the process, educational for all sides.
So now, increasingly, comes governance: who will "call the shots" and how, as the digital scales up to Globalized applications -- to a Globe where governance generally is done mostly in a very non-US way, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Egypt as we recently have discovered, and really everywhere else, in places far more "different" from the US than France and the French ever have been?
The French have been "first", in this, in many senses, and they very often have been very "fast" -- they have been "en avance" of the US even in some hitech arenas, for example, in spite of there having been a "retard français" in others -- always, however, they have offered usually-friendly although not-always-noticed clues, to us their US friends.
So in this "governance" instance, perhaps the French can help again. Their "top=>down" approach, and other aspects of the way they intend to do their book digitization -- for "orphans" and "out-of-print" and other things -- may be very different, from the way these ideas are thought of in Mountain View, or Manhattan, or Washington DC.
But they are more representative of the rest of the non-US world -- and that is where the US wants to sell its own products and services, now, in a Globalized economy -- marketing's Golden Rule, "know thy customer..."
Worth-a-journey, then -- the French, on caring for digitization's "orphans", below -- definitely worth-a-study, at least.
--oOo--
[Original version in English -- translation not by JK -- see also the original version in French, below]
* Paris, 1 February 2011 -
"Signature of the framework agreement for the digitization and online exploitation of out of print French books of the 20th century"
Frédéric Mitterrand, Ministry for Culture and Communication, René Ricol, Commissioner-General of investment attached to the Prime Minister, Bruno Racine, President of the National Library of France, Antoine Gallimard, President of the French Publishers Association (Syndicat national de l'Edition, SNE) Jean-Claude Bologne, President of the French Society of Literary Authors (Société des Gens de Lettres, SGDL) have signed a framework agreement reflecting the will to give new life, through digitization, to copyrighted out of print books of the 20th century. The aim is to digitize and make available for sale online, a corpus of 500 000 books within five years.
This agreement, fruit of the past year's reflection and cooperation, enables the project to be taken one step further with the launching of a detailed feasibility study within the coming months. It stresses in particular the fact that digitized books through « Investments for the future » will be exploited by means of a common management guaranteeing publishers and authors, equally, a fair remuneration in line with intellectual property rights. As a result, copyrights law will be modified.
Digitization will rely on the legal deposit collections stored at the National Library of France. The latter will be entitled to possess a digital copy for its own use. The website Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) will display the complete enriched bibliographical records, provide a possibility to access excerpts and redirect users towards online retailers in order to buy a digital copy.
The state financial support will be provided within the framework of the program « Development of the digital economy ». This euros 4.5bn scheme is one of the main components of the euros 35bn mobilized by the government for the « Investments for the future ». This includes euros 750m earmarked for the development of new ways of promoting and digitizing cultural, educational or scientific content.
[And the following is the original version in French -- with a few ISO 8859-1 character set symbols added-in here, only, by JK.]
* Paris, le 1er février 2011
"Signature de l'accord cadre relatif à la numérisation et l'exploitation des livres indisponibles du XXème siècle"
Frédéric Mitterrand, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, René Ricol, commissaire général à l'investissement, Bruno Racine, président de la bibliothèque nationale de France, Antoine Gallimard, président du Syndicat national de l'Edition et Jean-Claude Bologne, président de la Société des gens de lettres, ont signé un accord-cadre traduisant la volonté de redonner une nouvelle vie, sous forme numérique, aux livres sous droits du XXème siècle n'étant actuellement plus commercialisés en librairie. Un corpus de 500 000 livres pourra ainsi être numérisé et proposé à la vente à l'horizon de 5 ans.
Fruit d'une année de réflexions et de concertations, cet accord-cadre permet d'aborder une nouvelle phase dans la mise en oeuvre de ce projet avec la réalisation d'une étude de faisabilité détaillée dans les prochains mois. Il rappelle notamment que les livres numérisés au moyen des Investissements d'avenir seront exploités dans le cadre d'une gestion collective assurant aux éditeurs et aux auteurs, représentés à parité, une rémunération équitable dans le strict respect des droits moraux et patrimoniaux. Le code de la propriété intellectuelle sera modifié en conséquence.
La numérisation des livres sera effectuée à partir des collections du dépôt légal conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Celle-ci pourra conserver une copie numérique pour son usage propre. Le site Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) présentera l'intégralité des références bibliographiques enrichies, avec une possibilité de feuilletage, et renverra à des sites marchands pour l'acquisition des livres numériques.
Le soutien financier de l'Etat s'inscrira dans le cadre du programme « développement de l'économie numérique ».
Ce programme doté de 4,5 milliards d'euros est l'une des principales composantes des 35 milliards d'euros que le gouvernement mobilise pour les « investissements d'avenir ». Il inclut un volet de 750 millions d'euros visant à développer de nouvelles formes de valorisation et de numérisations des contenus culturels, scientifiques et éducatifs.
[* Both versions are from the "Press Release" distributed via email on February 10, 2011, by the BnF.]
--oOo--
Tortoises are said to have better track records than hares, long-term -- and, besides, it is not always entirely clear who is the "hare" and who the "tortoise", until the end of the race.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on February 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/4z2q2dn.
Regarding the "orphans" -- the legally and financially dispossessed, of the 20th c. and future digital worlds -- the books / texts no one claims, or their cousins no one wants either, hidden in the vast library treasuries now being digitized by so many...
The French today, le 10 February 2011, announced their approach to these problems, see below -- it is a brave declaration, well worth reading, as much for its "vive la différence" aspects as for what it both says and does not say.
Some comment:
* Approaches: "top=>down" very much versus "bottom=>up"
The above fairly characterizes a fundamental difference in approach, between the US and the Rest of the World Including France, in these and many other matters. And it is a difference best remembered on both sides, although often glossed-over, forgotten, or even never-known.
The French here are looking to their highest levels -- their august national library, their publishers' association, their national and supra-national governments -- for leadership, in digitization. This is regulation-before-invention, rationality-before-impulse -- "all is forbidden which is not permitted", perhaps, as the oldest saying about all this goes...
The US approach could not be more different: "over here", instead, two young Stanford graduate students, gangs of free-wheeling "venture capitalists" operating far outside the bounds of State-regulated "banking" -- a virtual and real and very expensive maelstrom of inventive activity, conducted by a horde of mere kids (think of young Hewlett & Packard, Jobs & Wozniack, Brin & Page, Doerr fresh from college, Gates before he'd even finished, Zuckerburg ditto) all of them far too young at the time to have come up against any real "State regulation", yet, more serious than a pot bust or a parking ticket anyway, then many hectic deadlines and midnight sessions and much "labor rights" insecurity, "only the paranoid survive", and tremendous excitement... There is no "business as usual", in US hitech innovation: little of the "regulation" or "rationality" which the French so value, and absolutely no "métro, boulot, dodo".
China is different in all this, from the US, Japan is different, India is different although more like the US than some of the others are, perhaps. So thinking of France, a nation so like the US and yet so different, may help us to appreciate how un-like the US all the others really are, too -- may enable us to take such differences less for-granted than we often do, in the hitech marvels currently pouring forth from the US and out upon the rest of the world, now.
* Marketing
If there is one characteristic of the US approach really not understood or even permitted, in most "foreign" places, it is "le marketing". In US usage, the term describing and encouraging the private "corporations", such as Google and Apple, which lead in these digitization efforts, is "marketing-led": in a US firm, per the US "business" schools, marketing must be everything -- if you can't "sell" it you shouldn't "do" it -- it's a way of characterizing the customer's input, or the manipulation of same, in design and operations and all aspects of the firm, an outgrowth of the "customer is king" mantra of the older Horatio Alger commercial generation in the US.
But nothing could be more "foreign" to the French approach, here or generally. Digitization of their precious texts is motivated not by "marketing" but by various forms of altruism -- history, philosophy, notions of the value of "reading" and the necessity of "education" -- mention "marketing" and the folks in France involved in these matters literally will not know what you mean, as to them that is merely an instrumental, operational idea, more like "typing", or "filing", the idea that "marketing" could be central or a motivation or an end-in-itself, to the French is very foreign and the very strangest...
* Money
Unless it's "monetize"... The French are no strangers to either term -- Paris houses one of Europe's best and biggest international business schools. But in France, as in most non-US places, it's not "marketing" or "money" which drive book digitization efforts, for example, but "patrimoine culturel".
Whereas in the US, "it's the money"... The younger Venture Capitalist Generation's mantra, this time, chanted repeatedly into the ear of the even-younger Graduate Student Corporate Founder, "Monetize! Monetize! Monetize!"...
To foreigners this preoccupation is a mystery, while in the US it is the essence: "The business of America is business", as one US national president put it succinctly.
* Floods and Famines
Now then comes the problem, though: there must, it seems, be room for more than one approach.
Because things have Globalized, now: like it or not, for both us and the French, and the other Europeans, and the folks in India, and the teenager in Urumchi in China, doing research for her term paper & texting her friends & shopping at Victoria's Secret, all via her cellphone...
Also because there is a new flood of all this on its way, now...
The "information overload", predicted from the "computers" of the 1980s and 1990s, was just "Flood 1.0" -- an initial inundation, one coped-with, moderately well, by then-new tools such as "personal computers", and by hypertext and information search & retrieval and The WorldWideWeb, and by Jerry's List, then Yahoo, Google's infamous algorithm, and decades of hitech development.
Now, though, from outside of the "computer" world and to a great extent unanticipated by it -- "from Left Field", to use the US baseball-analogy -- comes the newly-Globally-omnipresent "mobile" telephony, and its possibilities for communicating via Internet. The "power of many" just got graphic demonstration in the images from Cairo, repeating Teheran, and the Obama and Dean campaigns, and Manila's "People Power", and so many other recent instances.
The use of "mobiles", in finding and retrieving and using and creating raw "data" -- and then, hopefully, useful "information" too -- is the information overload "Flood 2.0" just-now breaking.
However many "computer" users there are now or ever will be, Globally, there are far more "mobile" users now -- and the two digital worlds, "computer" and "mobile", now are merging, into user networks capable of producing virtual firestorms of data, and many unpredictable consequences.
As all of us who followed Cairo events on Twitter et al. over the last few weeks can attest...
Typical GoogleSearch retrievals of i.e. "3,439,000 results" are about to jump a thousand-fold, then -- already we don't really understand at all why "#1" floated to the top, of our particular retrievals-heap -- Google says their algorithm knows, but that she's just not telling -- imminently, though, soon retrieving 1 out of "3,439,000,000+" instead, we'll _never_ be able to find or evaluate or use anything, if we don't start thinking outside of our old "computer"-era boxes pretty soon.
* Of Tortoises and Hares
Which brings us back to the French, here, and to their "different" approach -- one which, I am suggesting, stands for similarly-"different" approaches to be found elsewhere, all over the newly-Globalizing world in fact...
Plenty of sterile debate takes place, in hitech, about who was "first" and who is "fastest": sterile because most of it is circular -- where knowledge is additive, identifying origins is an arbitrary matter of deciding where to draw the line -- whether at a certain coffee shop in Silicon Valley, or at John von Neumann or Lady Lovelace, or at the invention of the "zero".
But the French have held their own, in this history: for instance their Minitel offered "online graphics", and "commercial applications", and "general public access", all long before the US Internet did -- back when all these activities still were illegal on the Internet, in fact. Early French contributions did not end, or even begin, at Descartes...
And one of the first among non-anglophone nations to try at least to adopt the early and still-anglophone ASCII-only Internet was France: this despite the many battles -- over "accents aigüs" and "OSI protocol wars" and "droit de copie" and the fascinating "droit moral", through which M. Victor Hugo still "owns" a slice of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to the eternal mystification of Americans, and now over "Google the phenomenon" -- the battles have been part of the process, educational for all sides.
So now, increasingly, comes governance: who will "call the shots" and how, as the digital scales up to Globalized applications -- to a Globe where governance generally is done mostly in a very non-US way, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Egypt as we recently have discovered, and really everywhere else, in places far more "different" from the US than France and the French ever have been?
The French have been "first", in this, in many senses, and they very often have been very "fast" -- they have been "en avance" of the US even in some hitech arenas, for example, in spite of there having been a "retard français" in others -- always, however, they have offered usually-friendly although not-always-noticed clues, to us their US friends.
So in this "governance" instance, perhaps the French can help again. Their "top=>down" approach, and other aspects of the way they intend to do their book digitization -- for "orphans" and "out-of-print" and other things -- may be very different, from the way these ideas are thought of in Mountain View, or Manhattan, or Washington DC.
But they are more representative of the rest of the non-US world -- and that is where the US wants to sell its own products and services, now, in a Globalized economy -- marketing's Golden Rule, "know thy customer..."
Worth-a-journey, then -- the French, on caring for digitization's "orphans", below -- definitely worth-a-study, at least.
--oOo--
[Original version in English -- translation not by JK -- see also the original version in French, below]
* Paris, 1 February 2011 -
"Signature of the framework agreement for the digitization and online exploitation of out of print French books of the 20th century"
Frédéric Mitterrand, Ministry for Culture and Communication, René Ricol, Commissioner-General of investment attached to the Prime Minister, Bruno Racine, President of the National Library of France, Antoine Gallimard, President of the French Publishers Association (Syndicat national de l'Edition, SNE) Jean-Claude Bologne, President of the French Society of Literary Authors (Société des Gens de Lettres, SGDL) have signed a framework agreement reflecting the will to give new life, through digitization, to copyrighted out of print books of the 20th century. The aim is to digitize and make available for sale online, a corpus of 500 000 books within five years.
This agreement, fruit of the past year's reflection and cooperation, enables the project to be taken one step further with the launching of a detailed feasibility study within the coming months. It stresses in particular the fact that digitized books through « Investments for the future » will be exploited by means of a common management guaranteeing publishers and authors, equally, a fair remuneration in line with intellectual property rights. As a result, copyrights law will be modified.
Digitization will rely on the legal deposit collections stored at the National Library of France. The latter will be entitled to possess a digital copy for its own use. The website Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) will display the complete enriched bibliographical records, provide a possibility to access excerpts and redirect users towards online retailers in order to buy a digital copy.
The state financial support will be provided within the framework of the program « Development of the digital economy ». This euros 4.5bn scheme is one of the main components of the euros 35bn mobilized by the government for the « Investments for the future ». This includes euros 750m earmarked for the development of new ways of promoting and digitizing cultural, educational or scientific content.
[And the following is the original version in French -- with a few ISO 8859-1 character set symbols added-in here, only, by JK.]
* Paris, le 1er février 2011
"Signature de l'accord cadre relatif à la numérisation et l'exploitation des livres indisponibles du XXème siècle"
Frédéric Mitterrand, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, René Ricol, commissaire général à l'investissement, Bruno Racine, président de la bibliothèque nationale de France, Antoine Gallimard, président du Syndicat national de l'Edition et Jean-Claude Bologne, président de la Société des gens de lettres, ont signé un accord-cadre traduisant la volonté de redonner une nouvelle vie, sous forme numérique, aux livres sous droits du XXème siècle n'étant actuellement plus commercialisés en librairie. Un corpus de 500 000 livres pourra ainsi être numérisé et proposé à la vente à l'horizon de 5 ans.
Fruit d'une année de réflexions et de concertations, cet accord-cadre permet d'aborder une nouvelle phase dans la mise en oeuvre de ce projet avec la réalisation d'une étude de faisabilité détaillée dans les prochains mois. Il rappelle notamment que les livres numérisés au moyen des Investissements d'avenir seront exploités dans le cadre d'une gestion collective assurant aux éditeurs et aux auteurs, représentés à parité, une rémunération équitable dans le strict respect des droits moraux et patrimoniaux. Le code de la propriété intellectuelle sera modifié en conséquence.
La numérisation des livres sera effectuée à partir des collections du dépôt légal conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Celle-ci pourra conserver une copie numérique pour son usage propre. Le site Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) présentera l'intégralité des références bibliographiques enrichies, avec une possibilité de feuilletage, et renverra à des sites marchands pour l'acquisition des livres numériques.
Le soutien financier de l'Etat s'inscrira dans le cadre du programme « développement de l'économie numérique ».
Ce programme doté de 4,5 milliards d'euros est l'une des principales composantes des 35 milliards d'euros que le gouvernement mobilise pour les « investissements d'avenir ». Il inclut un volet de 750 millions d'euros visant à développer de nouvelles formes de valorisation et de numérisations des contenus culturels, scientifiques et éducatifs.
[* Both versions are from the "Press Release" distributed via email on February 10, 2011, by the BnF.]
--oOo--
Tortoises are said to have better track records than hares, long-term -- and, besides, it is not always entirely clear who is the "hare" and who the "tortoise", until the end of the race.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
FYI France : Recent books on libraries, digital & other, in France
FYI France (since 1992) -- http://www.fyifrance.com/Fyarch/fy110115.htm
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on January 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/272s7h8.
It's not all online, yet... and even if it is, it's not really very easy to find things there, yet, so "books" & "catalogs" still are very useful - and libraries there as elsewhere are leaders in "digital" information -
* Mariangela Roselli, Marc Perrenoud. Du lecteur à l'usager : ethnographie d'une bibliothèque universitaire
(Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2010) 283 p. ; 22 cm. ; Series : Socio-logiques, 1159-9170
Subjects : Academic libraries -- Sociological aspects -- France -- Toulouse -- Case studies -- Library users -- Sociology of libraries and patrons
ISBN : 9782810700851, 2810700850
* Basile Baudez, Élizabeth Maisonnier et Emmanuel Pénicaut, eds. Les hôtels de la guerre et des affaires étrangères à Versailles : deux ministères et une bibliothèque municipale du XVIIIe au XXIe siècle
(Paris : N. Chaudun, 2010) 279 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 25 cm. ;
Summary :
(see also en américain, below)
"Édifiès entre 1759 et 1763 par la volonté de Louis XV, admirés de toute l'Europe au xviiie siècle, les hôtels jumeaux de la Guerre et des Affaires étrangères à Versailles furent les premiers immeubles français conçus pour les besoins spécifiques d'une administration.
"Après avoir abrité jusqu'à la Révolution les ministères de la Guerre, de la Marine et des Affaires étrangères, ils sont aujourd'hui occupé l'un par le Service d'infrastructure de la Défense et l'autre par la Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, dont les collections de manuscrits et d'imprimés sont parmi les plus riches de France. Traitant à la fois d'architecture, d'histoire et de bibliophilie, le présent ouvrage décrit les murs et les occupants de ces deux hôtels, où furent écrites quelques-unes des belles pages d'histoire militaire, diplomatique et culturelle de la France."
(en américain, tr. JK)
"Constructed between 1759 and 1763 at the behest of Louis XV, admired all over Europe during the 18th century, the twin edifices of la Guerre and des Affaires étrangères at Versailles were the first French buildings designed specifically for the needs of government administration.
"Having sheltered, until the Revolution, the ministries of Guerre, Marine, and Affaires étrangères, they are occupied today by the Service d'infrastructure de la Défense and by the Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, of which the collections of manuscripts and printed works are among the most highly prized in France.
"Addressing French architecture, history, and libraries, this work describes the structure and the occupants of these two buildings, where several of the most significant pages in the military and diplomatic and cultural history of France were written."
Subjects : Architecture -- France -- Versailles -- Public buildings -- Libraries -- Versailles (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
ISBN : 9782350390918, 2350390918
* Olga Medvedkova, ed. Bibliothèques d'architecture = Architectural libraries
(Paris : INHA ; Alain Baudry et Cie, 2009) 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; Series : République européenne des lettres, la république européenne des arts
Note : Journées d'études ... organisées par l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art et l'Association Française des historiens d'architecture, 14 et 15 janvier 2005 - P. 5.
Subjects : Architectural libraries -- History -- France -- Europe -- History -- Specialized libraries Architecture
ISBN : 9782357550063, 2357550066
* Valérie Tesnière, ed. Histoire en bibliothèque
(Paris : Cercle de la librairie, c2009) 254 p. ; 24 cm. ; avant-propos de Marc Olivier Baruch ; postface de Benoît Yvert ; Series : Collection Bibliothèques, 0184-0886
Subjects : History materials -- France -- Collection development (Libraries) -- France -- History -- Library resources
ISBN : 9782765409700 (pbk.), 2765409706 (pbk.)
* André Jammes. Libri vaincu : enquêtes policières et secrets bibliographiques : documents inédits
(Paris : Cendres, 2008) 83 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Subjects : Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 -- Book thefts -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Libraries -- Security measures -- Europe -- Criminal investigation -- Book History and Bibliography Judicial Case 19th Century
ISBN : 9782867421570, 2867421578.
* Lara Jennifer Moore. Restoring order : the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870
(Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2008) xiii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents :
"Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes"
"Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule"
"Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy"
"Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? : chartistes in the service of the Second Republic and early Empire"
"The challenge of the public : defining libraries and archives in the late Second Empire"
Subjects: Ecole nationale des chartes (France) -- History -- Archives -- France -- 19th century -- Libraries -- Charters, grants, privileges
ISBN : 9780977861798 (pbk. : acid-free paper), 0977861791 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
* Martine Poulain. Livres pillés, lectures surveillées : les bibliothèques françaises sous l'Occupation
([Paris] : Gallimard, c2008) 587 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; Series : NRF essais ;
Subjects : Libraries -- Censorship -- France -- History -- 20th century -- World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- France -- 2nd World War French Libraries Nazi Plundering and Censorship
Publisher's Description :
(see also en américain, below)
"On sait l'ampleur des pillages des collections d'art en France par l'occupant nazi.
"Nul n'ignore plus l'existence des listes Otto - recensant les auteurs juifs ou antinazis, qui devaient être à jamais bannis de tout catalogue - et que le syndicat des éditeurs français appliqua dès les premières heures de l'Occupation avec un zèle certain.
"Personne, avant Martine Poulain, ne s'était inquiété du devenir des bibliothèques dans la France de 1940 à 1944. Une France qui est à la fois celle de l'occupant nazi et celle du régime de Vichy.
"À la différence des archives des ministères (Guerre, Affaires étrangères, Intérieur, Justice) et des musées, peu de bibliothèques publiques sont l'objet du pillage par l'occupant, à l'exception des alsaciennes et des mosellanes, germanisées et propriétés du Reich. Le vol de masse, nazi mais aussi vichyste, frappe, dès juin 1940, les bibliothèques institutionnelles - juives, slaves, maçonnes - mais aussi privées, celles des premiers ennemis du Reich (les grandes familles juives, les Allemands exilés, les hommes politiques du Front populaire). Puis le pillage accompagne ordinairement les rafles. Plus de dix millions de livres prennent le chemin de l'Allemagne. Martine Poulain a constitué une première liste des personnes spoliées de leur bibliothèque - près de 1 700 noms.
"Le régime de Vichy, de son côté, surveille les livres, les bibliothèques et les lecteurs, sous la houlette d'une Bibliothèque nationale devenue le parangon de l'ordre nouveau, instrument de la collaboration d'état aux mains de Bernard Faÿ. Ce dernier mène une lutte obsessionnelle contre la franc-maçonnerie sous couvert d'un « Musée des sociétés secrètes ».
"Martine Poulain esquisse les portraits de quelques grandes figures, notamment Jean Laran, conservateur des Estampes, administrateur de la Bibliothèque nationale lors de l'invasion et de la Libération, et Marcel Bouteron, inspecteur général, deux délicieux érudits à l'éthique infaillible, qui surent, face à la brutalité, à la bêtise et à la mesquinerie des temps, prendre le chemin juste et agir dans la droiture."
http://www.gallimard.fr
And, to view a remarkable online interview with the author about the book: in french -
http://www.gallimard.fr/catalog/html/clip/A12295/index.htm
(en américain, tr. JK)
"The enormity of Nazi pillaging of art collections in France is well-known.
"We know of the Otto Lists - of Jewish or anti-Nazi authors, banned from all catalogs - and we know that French publishers applied them from the earliest hours of the Occupation, with definite zeal.
"But no one, before Martine Poulain, has been concerned with libraries in France from 1940 to 1944 - a France of both its Nazi Occupier and its Vichy Regime.
"By contrast to the ministerial archives - Guerre, Affaires étrangères, Intérieur, Justice - and the museums, few of the public libraries were pillaged by the Occupier, with the exception of those in Alsace and the Mosel, considered "German" and the property of the Reich. However mass theft, Nazi but also by Vichy, from 1940 on hit institutional libraries - Jewish, Slavic, Masonic - and also private collections, those of the "enemies of the Reich" - the great Jewish families, German exiles, political leaders of the Front Populaire. And the pillaging accompanied the deportations - more than ten million books were put on the roads to Germany. Martine Poulain has compiled an initial list of people robbed of their libraries - nearly 1,700 names.
"The Vichy Regime, for its part, mounted surveillance on books, libraries, and readers, under the aegis of a Bibliothèque Nationale which had a become a paragon of the New Order, an instrument of state collaboration in the hands of Bernard Faÿ. He waged an obsessive war against French Masonry, under the cover of a "Museum of Secret Societies", his « Musée des sociétés secrètes »."
"Martine Poulain sketches the portraits of several great figures, notably Jean Laran, conservateur des Estampes, administrateur of the Bibliothèque nationale up to the invasion and from the Libération, and Marcel Bouteron, inspecteur général, two notably eruidte individuals with infallible ethics, who assured, in the face of the brutality and folly and small-mindedness of the times, the survival of the true and the just."
Contents :
"Des millions de livres saisis par les nazis, des milliers de lecteurs spoliés"
"Les bibliothèques dans la guerre"
Bernard Faÿ, Intellectuel Collaborateur
"Bernard Faÿ, du Collège de France au Musée des sociétés secrètes"
"À la Bibliothè nationale : des rêves de grandeur"
"La Bibliothèque nationale, instrument de la collaboration"
Bibliothèques et Lecture
"Être bibliothécaire sous l'Occupation"
"Lisons sous l'Occupation"
"Protection et destruction"
La Mémoire des Livres
"La Libération : l'heure des comptes"
"Restituer leurs bibliothèques aux spoliés"
"Conclusion"
Annexes
"I - Les Bibliothèques sous l'Occupation : chronologie"
"II - Liste des effectuées à Paris jusqu'au 23 mars 1941. Rapport Hauptarbeitsgruppe Frankreich de l'ERR"
"III - Rapport de Jean Laran devant la commission d'épuration des bibliothèques et des archives"
"IV - Liste de cent personnes spoliées"
ISBN : 9782070122950, 2070122956
* Jean-Paul Céré. Bibliothèques de droit. Bibliothèque de droit administratif
(Paris [5-7 rue de l'École-Polytechnique, 75005] : l'Harmattan, DL 2010-) 22 cm ;
Note : Est une sous-collection de : Bibliothèques de droit = ISSN 1952-2657 ; ISSN 2110-1973 = Bibliothèques de droit. Bibliothèque de droit administratif
FRBNF42230762
* Denis Pallier. Les bibliothèques
(Paris : Presses universitaires de France, DL 2010) 12e éd. mise à jour ; 1 vol. (127 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm ; Collection : Que sais-je ? : histoire-géographie ; nº 944
ISBN : 978-2-13-057064-6 (br.)
* Jean-Noël Jeanneney. Quand Google défie l'Europe : plaidoyer pour un sursaut
([Paris] : Mille et une nuits, impr. 2010) 1 vol. (219 p.) ; 20 cm ; 3e éd. revue, augmentée et mise à jour avec une postface inédite ; Collection : Essai (Paris. 2001)
Subjects : Google -- Documentation de bibliothèque -- Numérisation -- Pays de l'Union européenne -- Prévision
ISBN : 978-2-75550-568-9
* Bruno Racine. Google et le nouveau monde
(Paris : Plon, impr. 2010) 1 vol. (149 p.) ; 20 cm ; Collection : Tribune Libre
Subjects : Google -- Bibliothèques virtuelles -- Documentation de bibliothèque -- Numérisation
ISBN : 978-2-259-21203-8
[* The above two books are reviewed by JK in the Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, bbf2010, t. 55 nº 6, pages 84-5 -
http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2010-06-0084-003
- see also,
http://www.fyifrance.com/f102010b.htm
- both favorably... :-)]
* Bernard Grelle. Des bibliothèques pour les ouvriers et des lectures de ceux-ci au XIXe siècle : le cas de Roubaix
(Bernay, France : Société d'histoire de la lecture, 2010) 1 vol. (63 p.) ; 25 cm ; Collection : Matériaux pour une histoire de la lecture et de ses institutions. Deuxième série ; 1, ISSN 1284-8220
Subjects : Travailleurs -- Livres et lecture -- France -- Roubaix (Nord) -- 19e siècle -- Bibliothèques publiques ;
ISBN : 978-2-912626-22-6 (br.)
* Raphaële Mouren. Dons et legs dans les bibliothèques : Je légue ma bibliothèque à...
(Gap, France : Atelier Perrousseaux, 2010) 220 p. ; 16 x 23 cm. ; Collection : Kitab Tabulae
Publisher's description:
"Plusieurs lois récentes ont multiplié les catégories et les conditions permettant l'exploitation des fonds des établissements patrimoniaux. Il est parfois difficile pour leurs responsables, qui ont rarement reçu une formation de juriste, d'identifier la législation qu'ils doivent appliquer.
"C'est à la fois pour mieux connaître ces collections et pour mettre en lumière les questions juridiques liées à certains aspects particuliers de leur gestion que le Centre de conservation du livre (Arles) et le Centre Gabriel Naudé (école nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques) ont lancé l'organisation de journées d'études annuelles « Droit et patrimoine ».
"La première journée, en juin 2007, avait pour objectif de retracer l'histoire de collections nées ou enrichies par des dons complexes. Ces dons ont une influence directe sur le fonctionnement courant d'un établissement lorsque les donateurs ont émis des conditions ou selon les circonstances dans lesquelles ont eu lieu ces dons : conditions de consultation ou de conservation spécifiques, réserves mises par les donateurs, etc.
"Organisée par Raphaële Mouren (maître de conférences à l'Enssib) et Stéphane Ipert (directeur du CCL), cette première journée a réuni plusieurs intervenants qui ont présenté des bibliothèques fondées ou enrichies par des dons et des legs exceptionnels depuis le xvie siècle : la bibliothèque de Gênes, la bibliothèque de la bourgeoisie de Berne, la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence, le musée Calvet d'Avignon, la bibliothèque du duc d'Aumale et les bibliothèques de Jacques Doucet. La journée s'est terminée par l'intervention d'une juriste spécialisée qui a précisé et expliqué l'état du droit dans le domaine en France."
Contents :
Laura Malfatto, Biblioteca Berio, Gênes
Quatre siècles de dons et de legs à la bibliothèque Berio de Gênes
Raphaële Mouren, Enssib, Villeurbanne
La bibliothèque Méjanes : Le legs du marquis de Méjanes et ses conséquences
Stéphane Ipert, Centre de conservation du livre, Arles
La bibliothèque du musée Calvet d'Avignon de 1789 à aujourd'hui : une situation juridique originale
Patrick Andrist, Burgerbibliothek, Berne
Le legs de Jacques Bongars, le don de Jakob Graviseth et la part de la Burgerbibliothek Bern
Emmanuelle Toulet, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris
Voulant conserver à la France... La donation de la bibliothèque du château de Chantilly à l'Institut de France
Martine Poulain, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
« C'est toujours en avant que je veux voir » : les deux joyaux intellectuels de Jacques Doucet
Marie Cornu, Université de Poitiers, CNRS Cecoji UMR 6224
Conserver, exposer, transmettre : les libéralités avec charges
ISBN : 978-2-911220-33-3
* Ahmet Ertuğ. Temples of knowledge : historical libraries of the western world
([Istanbul] : Ertuğ & Kocabıyıc, 2009) 56, 214-216 p., 94 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 42 cm. ;
Note (Yale) : This book offers a visual journey into the ancient libraries of Europe through the Eyes of Ahmet Ertuğ. The book displays unique and magnificent libraries in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, England and Ireland. A total of 30 historical libraries are presented in the book.
Note (BnF) : Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Temples du savoir" qui s'est tenue à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand, du 12 mai au 12 juillet 2009. - Bibliogr. p. 214
Subjects : Libraries -- Europe -- Pictorial works -- Library architecture -- History
FRBNF42250555.
And a Note:
One entry has been added, here, which did not appear in the original version distributed via email on January 15 - for the book by Mouren addresses a topic of timely interest in several places now, as in an age of "government cutbacks" the library "donation" is of increased importance, it seems, along with the many special issues and problems associated with such donations.
And, for bibliographic purists -
The "character set" for the above entry, which very interestingly is published in Turkey, appears "Romanized", here - "ISO-8859-1-ised" - not because Unicode and other norms nowadays might not do a better job, but because Internet marketing realities are such that the latter standards are not (yet?) fully-implemented among all the FYI France readers - or at least every time I try to use them I get some irate email back from Lhasa or Limoges or Lowell Mass. or Vladivostok, complaining that my "French accents look funny"... still, after all these years...
So, in keeping with the axiom that "the customer is king", I bow to another just as holy, in marketing, and "reduce to the lowest (?) common denominator" - IMO until the Internet deals better with both, it will continue to be a beta.
As well it should, perhaps, Umberto Eco having suggested that "The Search for the Perfect Language" (1955) perhaps is an undertaking which not only cannot succeed but might even be one with which we would not want to live, in its final squeaky-clean & too tidy & trains-running-on-time results.
And, authoritatively too, Tron : Legacy just reconfirmed Eco, only this year, this very month in fact. It seems that "perfection" necessarily breeds "imperfections" - at least in application, and whenever one is dealing with mere humans... while robots, on the other hand... See also Battlestar Galactica, Asimov, many others.
So for now the cite appears here in ASCII. There is one Unicode character : see if you can find it! The Turkish characters appear as-promised. But Lhasa & Limoges & Lowell Mass. & Vladivostok please forebear - I'll install the ASCII there too if you gently request it, maybe "comme c,a". :-)
Bonne 2011!
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on January 15, 2011 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/272s7h8.
It's not all online, yet... and even if it is, it's not really very easy to find things there, yet, so "books" & "catalogs" still are very useful - and libraries there as elsewhere are leaders in "digital" information -
* Mariangela Roselli, Marc Perrenoud. Du lecteur à l'usager : ethnographie d'une bibliothèque universitaire
(Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2010) 283 p. ; 22 cm. ; Series : Socio-logiques, 1159-9170
Subjects : Academic libraries -- Sociological aspects -- France -- Toulouse -- Case studies -- Library users -- Sociology of libraries and patrons
ISBN : 9782810700851, 2810700850
* Basile Baudez, Élizabeth Maisonnier et Emmanuel Pénicaut, eds. Les hôtels de la guerre et des affaires étrangères à Versailles : deux ministères et une bibliothèque municipale du XVIIIe au XXIe siècle
(Paris : N. Chaudun, 2010) 279 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 25 cm. ;
Summary :
(see also en américain, below)
"Édifiès entre 1759 et 1763 par la volonté de Louis XV, admirés de toute l'Europe au xviiie siècle, les hôtels jumeaux de la Guerre et des Affaires étrangères à Versailles furent les premiers immeubles français conçus pour les besoins spécifiques d'une administration.
"Après avoir abrité jusqu'à la Révolution les ministères de la Guerre, de la Marine et des Affaires étrangères, ils sont aujourd'hui occupé l'un par le Service d'infrastructure de la Défense et l'autre par la Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, dont les collections de manuscrits et d'imprimés sont parmi les plus riches de France. Traitant à la fois d'architecture, d'histoire et de bibliophilie, le présent ouvrage décrit les murs et les occupants de ces deux hôtels, où furent écrites quelques-unes des belles pages d'histoire militaire, diplomatique et culturelle de la France."
(en américain, tr. JK)
"Constructed between 1759 and 1763 at the behest of Louis XV, admired all over Europe during the 18th century, the twin edifices of la Guerre and des Affaires étrangères at Versailles were the first French buildings designed specifically for the needs of government administration.
"Having sheltered, until the Revolution, the ministries of Guerre, Marine, and Affaires étrangères, they are occupied today by the Service d'infrastructure de la Défense and by the Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, of which the collections of manuscripts and printed works are among the most highly prized in France.
"Addressing French architecture, history, and libraries, this work describes the structure and the occupants of these two buildings, where several of the most significant pages in the military and diplomatic and cultural history of France were written."
Subjects : Architecture -- France -- Versailles -- Public buildings -- Libraries -- Versailles (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
ISBN : 9782350390918, 2350390918
* Olga Medvedkova, ed. Bibliothèques d'architecture = Architectural libraries
(Paris : INHA ; Alain Baudry et Cie, 2009) 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; Series : République européenne des lettres, la république européenne des arts
Note : Journées d'études ... organisées par l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art et l'Association Française des historiens d'architecture, 14 et 15 janvier 2005 - P. 5.
Subjects : Architectural libraries -- History -- France -- Europe -- History -- Specialized libraries Architecture
ISBN : 9782357550063, 2357550066
* Valérie Tesnière, ed. Histoire en bibliothèque
(Paris : Cercle de la librairie, c2009) 254 p. ; 24 cm. ; avant-propos de Marc Olivier Baruch ; postface de Benoît Yvert ; Series : Collection Bibliothèques, 0184-0886
Subjects : History materials -- France -- Collection development (Libraries) -- France -- History -- Library resources
ISBN : 9782765409700 (pbk.), 2765409706 (pbk.)
* André Jammes. Libri vaincu : enquêtes policières et secrets bibliographiques : documents inédits
(Paris : Cendres, 2008) 83 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Subjects : Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 -- Book thefts -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Libraries -- Security measures -- Europe -- Criminal investigation -- Book History and Bibliography Judicial Case 19th Century
ISBN : 9782867421570, 2867421578.
* Lara Jennifer Moore. Restoring order : the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870
(Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2008) xiii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents :
"Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes"
"Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule"
"Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy"
"Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? : chartistes in the service of the Second Republic and early Empire"
"The challenge of the public : defining libraries and archives in the late Second Empire"
Subjects: Ecole nationale des chartes (France) -- History -- Archives -- France -- 19th century -- Libraries -- Charters, grants, privileges
ISBN : 9780977861798 (pbk. : acid-free paper), 0977861791 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
* Martine Poulain. Livres pillés, lectures surveillées : les bibliothèques françaises sous l'Occupation
([Paris] : Gallimard, c2008) 587 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; Series : NRF essais ;
Subjects : Libraries -- Censorship -- France -- History -- 20th century -- World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- France -- 2nd World War French Libraries Nazi Plundering and Censorship
Publisher's Description :
(see also en américain, below)
"On sait l'ampleur des pillages des collections d'art en France par l'occupant nazi.
"Nul n'ignore plus l'existence des listes Otto - recensant les auteurs juifs ou antinazis, qui devaient être à jamais bannis de tout catalogue - et que le syndicat des éditeurs français appliqua dès les premières heures de l'Occupation avec un zèle certain.
"Personne, avant Martine Poulain, ne s'était inquiété du devenir des bibliothèques dans la France de 1940 à 1944. Une France qui est à la fois celle de l'occupant nazi et celle du régime de Vichy.
"À la différence des archives des ministères (Guerre, Affaires étrangères, Intérieur, Justice) et des musées, peu de bibliothèques publiques sont l'objet du pillage par l'occupant, à l'exception des alsaciennes et des mosellanes, germanisées et propriétés du Reich. Le vol de masse, nazi mais aussi vichyste, frappe, dès juin 1940, les bibliothèques institutionnelles - juives, slaves, maçonnes - mais aussi privées, celles des premiers ennemis du Reich (les grandes familles juives, les Allemands exilés, les hommes politiques du Front populaire). Puis le pillage accompagne ordinairement les rafles. Plus de dix millions de livres prennent le chemin de l'Allemagne. Martine Poulain a constitué une première liste des personnes spoliées de leur bibliothèque - près de 1 700 noms.
"Le régime de Vichy, de son côté, surveille les livres, les bibliothèques et les lecteurs, sous la houlette d'une Bibliothèque nationale devenue le parangon de l'ordre nouveau, instrument de la collaboration d'état aux mains de Bernard Faÿ. Ce dernier mène une lutte obsessionnelle contre la franc-maçonnerie sous couvert d'un « Musée des sociétés secrètes ».
"Martine Poulain esquisse les portraits de quelques grandes figures, notamment Jean Laran, conservateur des Estampes, administrateur de la Bibliothèque nationale lors de l'invasion et de la Libération, et Marcel Bouteron, inspecteur général, deux délicieux érudits à l'éthique infaillible, qui surent, face à la brutalité, à la bêtise et à la mesquinerie des temps, prendre le chemin juste et agir dans la droiture."
http://www.gallimard.fr
And, to view a remarkable online interview with the author about the book: in french -
http://www.gallimard.fr/catalog/html/clip/A12295/index.htm
(en américain, tr. JK)
"The enormity of Nazi pillaging of art collections in France is well-known.
"We know of the Otto Lists - of Jewish or anti-Nazi authors, banned from all catalogs - and we know that French publishers applied them from the earliest hours of the Occupation, with definite zeal.
"But no one, before Martine Poulain, has been concerned with libraries in France from 1940 to 1944 - a France of both its Nazi Occupier and its Vichy Regime.
"By contrast to the ministerial archives - Guerre, Affaires étrangères, Intérieur, Justice - and the museums, few of the public libraries were pillaged by the Occupier, with the exception of those in Alsace and the Mosel, considered "German" and the property of the Reich. However mass theft, Nazi but also by Vichy, from 1940 on hit institutional libraries - Jewish, Slavic, Masonic - and also private collections, those of the "enemies of the Reich" - the great Jewish families, German exiles, political leaders of the Front Populaire. And the pillaging accompanied the deportations - more than ten million books were put on the roads to Germany. Martine Poulain has compiled an initial list of people robbed of their libraries - nearly 1,700 names.
"The Vichy Regime, for its part, mounted surveillance on books, libraries, and readers, under the aegis of a Bibliothèque Nationale which had a become a paragon of the New Order, an instrument of state collaboration in the hands of Bernard Faÿ. He waged an obsessive war against French Masonry, under the cover of a "Museum of Secret Societies", his « Musée des sociétés secrètes »."
"Martine Poulain sketches the portraits of several great figures, notably Jean Laran, conservateur des Estampes, administrateur of the Bibliothèque nationale up to the invasion and from the Libération, and Marcel Bouteron, inspecteur général, two notably eruidte individuals with infallible ethics, who assured, in the face of the brutality and folly and small-mindedness of the times, the survival of the true and the just."
Contents :
"Des millions de livres saisis par les nazis, des milliers de lecteurs spoliés"
"Les bibliothèques dans la guerre"
Bernard Faÿ, Intellectuel Collaborateur
"Bernard Faÿ, du Collège de France au Musée des sociétés secrètes"
"À la Bibliothè nationale : des rêves de grandeur"
"La Bibliothèque nationale, instrument de la collaboration"
Bibliothèques et Lecture
"Être bibliothécaire sous l'Occupation"
"Lisons sous l'Occupation"
"Protection et destruction"
La Mémoire des Livres
"La Libération : l'heure des comptes"
"Restituer leurs bibliothèques aux spoliés"
"Conclusion"
Annexes
"I - Les Bibliothèques sous l'Occupation : chronologie"
"II - Liste des effectuées à Paris jusqu'au 23 mars 1941. Rapport Hauptarbeitsgruppe Frankreich de l'ERR"
"III - Rapport de Jean Laran devant la commission d'épuration des bibliothèques et des archives"
"IV - Liste de cent personnes spoliées"
ISBN : 9782070122950, 2070122956
* Jean-Paul Céré. Bibliothèques de droit. Bibliothèque de droit administratif
(Paris [5-7 rue de l'École-Polytechnique, 75005] : l'Harmattan, DL 2010-) 22 cm ;
Note : Est une sous-collection de : Bibliothèques de droit = ISSN 1952-2657 ; ISSN 2110-1973 = Bibliothèques de droit. Bibliothèque de droit administratif
FRBNF42230762
* Denis Pallier. Les bibliothèques
(Paris : Presses universitaires de France, DL 2010) 12e éd. mise à jour ; 1 vol. (127 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm ; Collection : Que sais-je ? : histoire-géographie ; nº 944
ISBN : 978-2-13-057064-6 (br.)
* Jean-Noël Jeanneney. Quand Google défie l'Europe : plaidoyer pour un sursaut
([Paris] : Mille et une nuits, impr. 2010) 1 vol. (219 p.) ; 20 cm ; 3e éd. revue, augmentée et mise à jour avec une postface inédite ; Collection : Essai (Paris. 2001)
Subjects : Google -- Documentation de bibliothèque -- Numérisation -- Pays de l'Union européenne -- Prévision
ISBN : 978-2-75550-568-9
* Bruno Racine. Google et le nouveau monde
(Paris : Plon, impr. 2010) 1 vol. (149 p.) ; 20 cm ; Collection : Tribune Libre
Subjects : Google -- Bibliothèques virtuelles -- Documentation de bibliothèque -- Numérisation
ISBN : 978-2-259-21203-8
[* The above two books are reviewed by JK in the Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, bbf2010, t. 55 nº 6, pages 84-5 -
http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2010-06-0084-003
- see also,
http://www.fyifrance.com/f102010b.htm
- both favorably... :-)]
* Bernard Grelle. Des bibliothèques pour les ouvriers et des lectures de ceux-ci au XIXe siècle : le cas de Roubaix
(Bernay, France : Société d'histoire de la lecture, 2010) 1 vol. (63 p.) ; 25 cm ; Collection : Matériaux pour une histoire de la lecture et de ses institutions. Deuxième série ; 1, ISSN 1284-8220
Subjects : Travailleurs -- Livres et lecture -- France -- Roubaix (Nord) -- 19e siècle -- Bibliothèques publiques ;
ISBN : 978-2-912626-22-6 (br.)
* Raphaële Mouren. Dons et legs dans les bibliothèques : Je légue ma bibliothèque à...
(Gap, France : Atelier Perrousseaux, 2010) 220 p. ; 16 x 23 cm. ; Collection : Kitab Tabulae
Publisher's description:
"Plusieurs lois récentes ont multiplié les catégories et les conditions permettant l'exploitation des fonds des établissements patrimoniaux. Il est parfois difficile pour leurs responsables, qui ont rarement reçu une formation de juriste, d'identifier la législation qu'ils doivent appliquer.
"C'est à la fois pour mieux connaître ces collections et pour mettre en lumière les questions juridiques liées à certains aspects particuliers de leur gestion que le Centre de conservation du livre (Arles) et le Centre Gabriel Naudé (école nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques) ont lancé l'organisation de journées d'études annuelles « Droit et patrimoine ».
"La première journée, en juin 2007, avait pour objectif de retracer l'histoire de collections nées ou enrichies par des dons complexes. Ces dons ont une influence directe sur le fonctionnement courant d'un établissement lorsque les donateurs ont émis des conditions ou selon les circonstances dans lesquelles ont eu lieu ces dons : conditions de consultation ou de conservation spécifiques, réserves mises par les donateurs, etc.
"Organisée par Raphaële Mouren (maître de conférences à l'Enssib) et Stéphane Ipert (directeur du CCL), cette première journée a réuni plusieurs intervenants qui ont présenté des bibliothèques fondées ou enrichies par des dons et des legs exceptionnels depuis le xvie siècle : la bibliothèque de Gênes, la bibliothèque de la bourgeoisie de Berne, la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence, le musée Calvet d'Avignon, la bibliothèque du duc d'Aumale et les bibliothèques de Jacques Doucet. La journée s'est terminée par l'intervention d'une juriste spécialisée qui a précisé et expliqué l'état du droit dans le domaine en France."
Contents :
Laura Malfatto, Biblioteca Berio, Gênes
Quatre siècles de dons et de legs à la bibliothèque Berio de Gênes
Raphaële Mouren, Enssib, Villeurbanne
La bibliothèque Méjanes : Le legs du marquis de Méjanes et ses conséquences
Stéphane Ipert, Centre de conservation du livre, Arles
La bibliothèque du musée Calvet d'Avignon de 1789 à aujourd'hui : une situation juridique originale
Patrick Andrist, Burgerbibliothek, Berne
Le legs de Jacques Bongars, le don de Jakob Graviseth et la part de la Burgerbibliothek Bern
Emmanuelle Toulet, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris
Voulant conserver à la France... La donation de la bibliothèque du château de Chantilly à l'Institut de France
Martine Poulain, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
« C'est toujours en avant que je veux voir » : les deux joyaux intellectuels de Jacques Doucet
Marie Cornu, Université de Poitiers, CNRS Cecoji UMR 6224
Conserver, exposer, transmettre : les libéralités avec charges
ISBN : 978-2-911220-33-3
* Ahmet Ertuğ. Temples of knowledge : historical libraries of the western world
([Istanbul] : Ertuğ & Kocabıyıc, 2009) 56, 214-216 p., 94 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 42 cm. ;
Note (Yale) : This book offers a visual journey into the ancient libraries of Europe through the Eyes of Ahmet Ertuğ. The book displays unique and magnificent libraries in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, England and Ireland. A total of 30 historical libraries are presented in the book.
Note (BnF) : Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Temples du savoir" qui s'est tenue à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand, du 12 mai au 12 juillet 2009. - Bibliogr. p. 214
Subjects : Libraries -- Europe -- Pictorial works -- Library architecture -- History
FRBNF42250555.
And a Note:
One entry has been added, here, which did not appear in the original version distributed via email on January 15 - for the book by Mouren addresses a topic of timely interest in several places now, as in an age of "government cutbacks" the library "donation" is of increased importance, it seems, along with the many special issues and problems associated with such donations.
And, for bibliographic purists -
The "character set" for the above entry, which very interestingly is published in Turkey, appears "Romanized", here - "ISO-8859-1-ised" - not because Unicode and other norms nowadays might not do a better job, but because Internet marketing realities are such that the latter standards are not (yet?) fully-implemented among all the FYI France readers - or at least every time I try to use them I get some irate email back from Lhasa or Limoges or Lowell Mass. or Vladivostok, complaining that my "French accents look funny"... still, after all these years...
So, in keeping with the axiom that "the customer is king", I bow to another just as holy, in marketing, and "reduce to the lowest (?) common denominator" - IMO until the Internet deals better with both, it will continue to be a beta.
As well it should, perhaps, Umberto Eco having suggested that "The Search for the Perfect Language" (1955) perhaps is an undertaking which not only cannot succeed but might even be one with which we would not want to live, in its final squeaky-clean & too tidy & trains-running-on-time results.
And, authoritatively too, Tron : Legacy just reconfirmed Eco, only this year, this very month in fact. It seems that "perfection" necessarily breeds "imperfections" - at least in application, and whenever one is dealing with mere humans... while robots, on the other hand... See also Battlestar Galactica, Asimov, many others.
So for now the cite appears here in ASCII. There is one Unicode character : see if you can find it! The Turkish characters appear as-promised. But Lhasa & Limoges & Lowell Mass. & Vladivostok please forebear - I'll install the ASCII there too if you gently request it, maybe "comme c,a". :-)
Bonne 2011!
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
Friday, December 17, 2010
FYI France : "Internet, the knowledge revolution"
FYI France (since 1992) -- http://www.fyifrance.com/Fyarch/fy101215.htm
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on December 15, 2010 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/272s7h8.
"Internet, the knowledge revolution"
A book of readings, in a different way of looking at the Internet -- a "foreign" way, non-anglophone... a French way... perhaps even an "international" way...
In both the selection and arrangement, of these interesting articles -- Le Crosnier draws from Clay Shirky, Umberto Eco, J.-N. Jeanneney, B. Racine, other interesting writers and resources -- here, in one slim volume, some very "different" approaches are presented to the way "data" and "information" and "research" are being considered and pursued online.
Are these "different" approaches French? Are they European? Are they, simply, non-American?
As with healthcare and sovereign debt and so many other subjects, nowadays, readers will find here subtle, and some not-so-subtle, differences with the current reigning paradigm.
Whether those differences exist because the writers here are, primarily, not American, must be for the reader to judge. But the interesting ideas presented here stray from the current mainstream.
Octavio Paz once famously labeled his own non-conformist ideas about Mexico, "Critique of the Pyramid". Here Le Crosnier is interested in similar: in ideas which stand apart, and look skeptically and critically at the "pyramid" of digital information we are constructing, and at its capacities for doing both good and, perhaps, some evil.
It is only by standing apart, from the process, that writers -- thinkers -- really can do this. By being "foreign"... Those too close to the center of the dynamo, at the current pyramid's apex perhaps, those caught up in all this, Americans, also all English-speakers, should read this little book, and carefully consider its contents -- Americans should note for example that there is little said here about entrepreneurial spirit, or about monetization, or profit margin, or return-on-investment or venture capitalism, all topics so essential nowadays to American discussions of these matters.
Le Crosnier divides his inquiry into three sections: translations are my own --
-- what is "knowledge" in the digital era? -- how do its new shaping & sharing procedures work? -- and do they work, does "it" get transmitted, from some to others, and is the thing-transmitted really "knowledge"?
There are those of us who believe that Twitter tweets and Google searches and Wiki-leaks and Info-tainment might not be "knowledge" -- more just, really, noise -- something pretending to be "information" but, lacking filters & structure & wisdom & experience, more just really "data".
Or perhaps the skeptics and critics just, as the poets warn, are "growing old" -- per T.S. Eliot,
These are new ideas, discussed in this little book. Some are extraordinary, some mundane -- some ideas about books and libraries may be comfortable and familiar, others about e-books and information-sharing may be threatening and maddening -- a world of Twitter and Facebook, of Infotainment and Wikileaks, of Internet-enabled video-gaming, may not be the knowledge-world which even our mermaids had in mind, back when they first sang to us, but it may be the rough-beast brave new world that is dawning.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
p.s. The best way to understand Le Crosnier's discussion, before diving into his readings, is to follow his table of contents, closely: so I have translated it here -- French speakers inevitably will find at least subtle differences, between my translations and his French originals, but that is partly the point --
Sommaire
("Summary")
[...and yes I realize "Table of Contents" is the usual rendering into English. But that is what I mean, in saying just above that "vive la différence" is partly the point: "Summary" does a better job, here, of conveying the intention in what follows -- lacking as it does the pseudo-"mathematical" & "certainty" connotations of the English usage "table" -- not the only fausse amie which may not be so fausse, in what follows. En garde, then, the French really do "think different".]
Internet: la révolution des savoirs
("Internet: the knowledge revolution")
Dossier réalisé par Hervé Le Crosnier
("Compiled and edited by Hervé Le Crosnier")
maître de conférences à l'université de Caen
("maître de conférences at the université de Caen")
[page:]
5 Avant-propos -- Hervé le Crosnier
("Foreword")
Société de la connaissance: un monde en transformation ("The Knowledge Society: A World in Transformation")
De nouvelles pratiques culturelles
("Some new cultural practices")
13 De la société de l'information à la société des savoirs partagés -- S. Burch
("From the Society of Information to the Society of Shared Information")
16 Des compétences devenues indispensables -- Parlement européen
("Some skills which have become indispensable")
17 Comment les enfants et les adolescents se représentent l'internet -- É. Kredens et B. Fontar
("How children and adolescents present themselves on the Internet")
19 Les digital natives et la culture -- S. Octobre
("'Digital natives' and culture")
22 Culture/distraction: une frontière de plus en plus brouillée -- O. Donnat
("Culture versus Distraction: an increasingly-scrambled frontier")
24 Vivre dans un monde de flux -- H. Guillaud
("Life in a world of change")
Quelles conséquences sur les savoirs?
("What consequences, for knowledge?")
26 Google nous rend-il idiots? -- N. Carr
("Does Google turn us into idiots?")
30 Cerveau et internet -- L. Belot, J. Lehrer
("The Brain and the Internet")
31 Internet transforme-t-il la façon dont nous pensons? -- H. Guillaud
("Will the Internet transform the way we think?")
33 Une dynamique de partage de la connaissance -- P. Aigrain
("A Knowledge-Sharing Dynamic")
Produire et partager les connaissances ("Producing and Sharing Knowledge")
La recherche en libre accés
("Open-access searching")
37 Comment et pourquoi les revues scientifiques ont-elles été créées? -- J.-C. Guédon
("How and why were scientific reviews created?")
39 Lever les obstacles vers l'accés ouvert -- Initiative de Budapest
("Lifting the obstacles to open access")
41 Crise des revues scientifiques et nouvelles formes de publication -- J. Farchy, P. Froissart et C. Méadel
("Crisis, scientific reviews and new forms of publication")
42 Valoriser les données scientifiques publiques -- OCDE
("Evaluating publicly-available scientific data")
44 Trois communautés scientifiques et leurs pratiques de publications numériques -- J.-M. Salaün
("Three scientific communities and their digital publication practices")
Recherche ouverte et collaborative
("Open and collaborative research")
48 Savoirs profanes: l'exemple de la production d'information médicale par les patients -- C. Méadel
("Savoirs profanes: the example of the production of medical information by the patients")
50 Les blogs scientifiques du Guardian -- M. Garber
("The science blogs of The Guardian")
51 La vidéo incite à l'innovation -- S. Lapoix
("Video and innovation")
52 Un quatrième paradigme scientifique -- G. Bell
("A Fourth Paradigm, for science")
55 Tela Botanica : des relations nouvelles entre amateurs et experts -- L. Heaton, F. Millerand et S. Proulx
("Tela Botanica: new relations between amateurs and experts")
Communautés technologiques créatives
("Creative technology communities")
58 La liberté du logiciel -- D. Cardon
("Free The Software")
60 Les méthodes du libre au-delà du logiciel -- C. Shirky
("Freedoms beyond software")
63 La révolution des amateurs professionnels -- C. Leadbeter, P. Miller
("The revolt of the professional amateurs")
Transmission des connaissances ("The Transmission of Knowledge")
Le système scolaire et le numérique
("The school system and the digital")
69 Prendre en compte les TIC à l'école -- ministère de l'éducation nationale
("Taking the new technologies into account at school")
70 Le C2i : certificat informatique et internet -- ministère de l'Education nationale
("The C2i: Certificate in Informatique and Internet")
71 Cyberéducation pour une cybergénération ? -- C. Kéribin
("Cyber-education for a cyber-generation")
72 Les apports des Tice dans l'apprentissage -- J.-M. Fourgous
("What the new technologies bring to apprenticeship")
74 La réalité de l'usage d'internet dans les établissements scolaires -- Le Monde
("The reality of Internet usage in schools")
Les ressources éducatives libres
("Open education resources")
76 Que sont les ressources éducatives ouvertes? -- S. Gurell
("What are open education resources?")
77 Petite histoire du concept de ressources éducatives libres -- S. d'Antoni
("The idea of open education resources: a history")
79 Débrider le potentiel des ressources éducatives partagées -- Déclaration du Cap
("Unleash the potential of shared educational resources")
Mémoires numériques ("Digital memories")
Archiver l'internet
("Archiving the Internet")
85 Politique de l'archive -- D. Boullier
("The politics of an archive")
87 Le dépôt légal de l'internet -- G. llien
("Copyright deposit and the Internet")
90 Archiver nos mémoires: pourquoi conserver Twitter ? -- O. Ertzscheid
("Archiving our memories: why save Twitter?")
Du livre aux bibliothèques numériques
("From The Book to Digital Libraries")
96 Définir les bibliothèques numériques -- H. Le Crosnier
("Defining digital libraries")
100 Apprendre à rechercher l'information -- Le Monde
("Learning how to research information")
102 Le numérique tuera le livre -- C. Biagini et G. Carnino
("Le Numérique tuera Le Livre")
104 Le « vertige de la liste » -- U. Eco
("The 'vertigo of The List'")
106 Le livre « qui s'écrit et qui se lit » -- M. Dacos
("The book, 'which is written and which is read'")
108 Le choc stimulant de l'entreprise de numérisation par Google -- J.-N. Jeanneney
("The stimulating shock of Google's digitization business")
111 Le livre numérique : des possibilités nouvelles -- B. Racine
("The digital book: new possibilities")
115 Les nouvelles missions des bibliothèques à l'heure du numérique -- H. Le Crosnier
("New missions for libraries in digital times")
117 Bibliographie complémentaire
("Bibliography")
118 Rappel des références
("References")
--oOo--
Copyright © 1992- by Jack Kessler, all rights reserved.
W3 site maintained at http://www.fyifrance.com/
Document maintained by: Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
Last update: December 19, 2010
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on December 15, 2010 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/272s7h8.
"Internet, the knowledge revolution"
A book of readings, in a different way of looking at the Internet -- a "foreign" way, non-anglophone... a French way... perhaps even an "international" way...
- Hervé Le Crosnier, Internet: la révolution des savoirs (Paris : la Documentation Française, novembre 2010) 120 pages ; ISSN : 0015-9743 ; Series: problèmes politiques et sociaux, no. 978.
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/catalogue/3303332109784/
In both the selection and arrangement, of these interesting articles -- Le Crosnier draws from Clay Shirky, Umberto Eco, J.-N. Jeanneney, B. Racine, other interesting writers and resources -- here, in one slim volume, some very "different" approaches are presented to the way "data" and "information" and "research" are being considered and pursued online.
Are these "different" approaches French? Are they European? Are they, simply, non-American?
As with healthcare and sovereign debt and so many other subjects, nowadays, readers will find here subtle, and some not-so-subtle, differences with the current reigning paradigm.
Whether those differences exist because the writers here are, primarily, not American, must be for the reader to judge. But the interesting ideas presented here stray from the current mainstream.
Octavio Paz once famously labeled his own non-conformist ideas about Mexico, "Critique of the Pyramid". Here Le Crosnier is interested in similar: in ideas which stand apart, and look skeptically and critically at the "pyramid" of digital information we are constructing, and at its capacities for doing both good and, perhaps, some evil.
It is only by standing apart, from the process, that writers -- thinkers -- really can do this. By being "foreign"... Those too close to the center of the dynamo, at the current pyramid's apex perhaps, those caught up in all this, Americans, also all English-speakers, should read this little book, and carefully consider its contents -- Americans should note for example that there is little said here about entrepreneurial spirit, or about monetization, or profit margin, or return-on-investment or venture capitalism, all topics so essential nowadays to American discussions of these matters.
Le Crosnier divides his inquiry into three sections: translations are my own --
- Société de la connaissance: un monde en transformation ("The Knowledge Society: A World in Transformation")
- Produire et partager les connaissances ("Producing and Sharing Knowledge")
- Transmission des connaissances ("The Transmission of Knowledge")
-- what is "knowledge" in the digital era? -- how do its new shaping & sharing procedures work? -- and do they work, does "it" get transmitted, from some to others, and is the thing-transmitted really "knowledge"?
There are those of us who believe that Twitter tweets and Google searches and Wiki-leaks and Info-tainment might not be "knowledge" -- more just, really, noise -- something pretending to be "information" but, lacking filters & structure & wisdom & experience, more just really "data".
Or perhaps the skeptics and critics just, as the poets warn, are "growing old" -- per T.S. Eliot,
I grow old. I grow old.
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
These are new ideas, discussed in this little book. Some are extraordinary, some mundane -- some ideas about books and libraries may be comfortable and familiar, others about e-books and information-sharing may be threatening and maddening -- a world of Twitter and Facebook, of Infotainment and Wikileaks, of Internet-enabled video-gaming, may not be the knowledge-world which even our mermaids had in mind, back when they first sang to us, but it may be the rough-beast brave new world that is dawning.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
--oOo--
p.s. The best way to understand Le Crosnier's discussion, before diving into his readings, is to follow his table of contents, closely: so I have translated it here -- French speakers inevitably will find at least subtle differences, between my translations and his French originals, but that is partly the point --
Sommaire
("Summary")
[...and yes I realize "Table of Contents" is the usual rendering into English. But that is what I mean, in saying just above that "vive la différence" is partly the point: "Summary" does a better job, here, of conveying the intention in what follows -- lacking as it does the pseudo-"mathematical" & "certainty" connotations of the English usage "table" -- not the only fausse amie which may not be so fausse, in what follows. En garde, then, the French really do "think different".]
Internet: la révolution des savoirs
("Internet: the knowledge revolution")
Dossier réalisé par Hervé Le Crosnier
("Compiled and edited by Hervé Le Crosnier")
maître de conférences à l'université de Caen
("maître de conférences at the université de Caen")
[page:]
5 Avant-propos -- Hervé le Crosnier
("Foreword")
Société de la connaissance: un monde en transformation ("The Knowledge Society: A World in Transformation")
De nouvelles pratiques culturelles
("Some new cultural practices")
13 De la société de l'information à la société des savoirs partagés -- S. Burch
("From the Society of Information to the Society of Shared Information")
16 Des compétences devenues indispensables -- Parlement européen
("Some skills which have become indispensable")
17 Comment les enfants et les adolescents se représentent l'internet -- É. Kredens et B. Fontar
("How children and adolescents present themselves on the Internet")
19 Les digital natives et la culture -- S. Octobre
("'Digital natives' and culture")
22 Culture/distraction: une frontière de plus en plus brouillée -- O. Donnat
("Culture versus Distraction: an increasingly-scrambled frontier")
24 Vivre dans un monde de flux -- H. Guillaud
("Life in a world of change")
Quelles conséquences sur les savoirs?
("What consequences, for knowledge?")
26 Google nous rend-il idiots? -- N. Carr
("Does Google turn us into idiots?")
30 Cerveau et internet -- L. Belot, J. Lehrer
("The Brain and the Internet")
31 Internet transforme-t-il la façon dont nous pensons? -- H. Guillaud
("Will the Internet transform the way we think?")
33 Une dynamique de partage de la connaissance -- P. Aigrain
("A Knowledge-Sharing Dynamic")
Produire et partager les connaissances ("Producing and Sharing Knowledge")
La recherche en libre accés
("Open-access searching")
37 Comment et pourquoi les revues scientifiques ont-elles été créées? -- J.-C. Guédon
("How and why were scientific reviews created?")
39 Lever les obstacles vers l'accés ouvert -- Initiative de Budapest
("Lifting the obstacles to open access")
41 Crise des revues scientifiques et nouvelles formes de publication -- J. Farchy, P. Froissart et C. Méadel
("Crisis, scientific reviews and new forms of publication")
42 Valoriser les données scientifiques publiques -- OCDE
("Evaluating publicly-available scientific data")
44 Trois communautés scientifiques et leurs pratiques de publications numériques -- J.-M. Salaün
("Three scientific communities and their digital publication practices")
Recherche ouverte et collaborative
("Open and collaborative research")
48 Savoirs profanes: l'exemple de la production d'information médicale par les patients -- C. Méadel
("Savoirs profanes: the example of the production of medical information by the patients")
50 Les blogs scientifiques du Guardian -- M. Garber
("The science blogs of The Guardian")
51 La vidéo incite à l'innovation -- S. Lapoix
("Video and innovation")
52 Un quatrième paradigme scientifique -- G. Bell
("A Fourth Paradigm, for science")
55 Tela Botanica : des relations nouvelles entre amateurs et experts -- L. Heaton, F. Millerand et S. Proulx
("Tela Botanica: new relations between amateurs and experts")
Communautés technologiques créatives
("Creative technology communities")
58 La liberté du logiciel -- D. Cardon
("Free The Software")
60 Les méthodes du libre au-delà du logiciel -- C. Shirky
("Freedoms beyond software")
63 La révolution des amateurs professionnels -- C. Leadbeter, P. Miller
("The revolt of the professional amateurs")
Transmission des connaissances ("The Transmission of Knowledge")
Le système scolaire et le numérique
("The school system and the digital")
69 Prendre en compte les TIC à l'école -- ministère de l'éducation nationale
("Taking the new technologies into account at school")
70 Le C2i : certificat informatique et internet -- ministère de l'Education nationale
("The C2i: Certificate in Informatique and Internet")
71 Cyberéducation pour une cybergénération ? -- C. Kéribin
("Cyber-education for a cyber-generation")
72 Les apports des Tice dans l'apprentissage -- J.-M. Fourgous
("What the new technologies bring to apprenticeship")
74 La réalité de l'usage d'internet dans les établissements scolaires -- Le Monde
("The reality of Internet usage in schools")
Les ressources éducatives libres
("Open education resources")
76 Que sont les ressources éducatives ouvertes? -- S. Gurell
("What are open education resources?")
77 Petite histoire du concept de ressources éducatives libres -- S. d'Antoni
("The idea of open education resources: a history")
79 Débrider le potentiel des ressources éducatives partagées -- Déclaration du Cap
("Unleash the potential of shared educational resources")
Mémoires numériques ("Digital memories")
Archiver l'internet
("Archiving the Internet")
85 Politique de l'archive -- D. Boullier
("The politics of an archive")
87 Le dépôt légal de l'internet -- G. llien
("Copyright deposit and the Internet")
90 Archiver nos mémoires: pourquoi conserver Twitter ? -- O. Ertzscheid
("Archiving our memories: why save Twitter?")
Du livre aux bibliothèques numériques
("From The Book to Digital Libraries")
96 Définir les bibliothèques numériques -- H. Le Crosnier
("Defining digital libraries")
100 Apprendre à rechercher l'information -- Le Monde
("Learning how to research information")
102 Le numérique tuera le livre -- C. Biagini et G. Carnino
("Le Numérique tuera Le Livre")
104 Le « vertige de la liste » -- U. Eco
("The 'vertigo of The List'")
106 Le livre « qui s'écrit et qui se lit » -- M. Dacos
("The book, 'which is written and which is read'")
108 Le choc stimulant de l'entreprise de numérisation par Google -- J.-N. Jeanneney
("The stimulating shock of Google's digitization business")
111 Le livre numérique : des possibilités nouvelles -- B. Racine
("The digital book: new possibilities")
115 Les nouvelles missions des bibliothèques à l'heure du numérique -- H. Le Crosnier
("New missions for libraries in digital times")
117 Bibliographie complémentaire
("Bibliography")
118 Rappel des références
("References")
--oOo--
Copyright © 1992- by Jack Kessler, all rights reserved.
W3 site maintained at http://www.fyifrance.com/
Document maintained by: Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
Last update: December 19, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
FYI France : France.fr, & "LeLabo" @ LeBnf digital library
FYI France (since 1992) -- http://www.fyifrance.com/Fyarch/fy101015.htm
File 3: Ejournal & archive, by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us -- Archive copy of an issue of the FYI France ejournal, ISSN 1071-5916, distributed via email on November 15, 2010 -- and, a little later, here on http://fyifrance.blogspot.com/, and at Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall-http://tinyurl.com/2a4p65j.
France.fr, & "LeLabo" @ LeBnf digital library
Amid all the economic crashes and political shenanigans and other dodgy news, recently, France soldiers on -- that's one thing I like, about the place and its people, they're long-lived... adept at surviving and enjoying it, as I too very much hope to be...
So the French, for example:
* Online now, France.fr !
Nous autres are not used to the energy with which the French promote France, certainly not officially. The current Whitehouse.gov site does a pretty good job, as does USA.gov altho that is more for bureaucracy-assistance than it is for selling-the-image. So, imagine a UK.uk... or a USA.us... Most government tourist authorities and commercial offices are hard-working but under-funded, these days, at-war perpetually with competing arms of their various bureaucracies, and poorly-supported by the folks back 'ome -- not so, however, the French -- see,
http://www.france.fr/
-- the links lead to,
Connai^tre [sic -- see the p.s. below here]
Visiter
Vivre
Etudier
Travailler
Entreprendre
-- significant main-heading omissions include "manger", "boire", and the many other activities and interests for which the place and its people are famous, but they must be in there somewhere...
-- and yes the site is available in English --
http://www.france.fr/en
Knowing
Visiting
Living
Studying
Working
Investing
-- also in German, Spanish, and Italian.
Sumptuously-illustrated, like everything the French produce...
The site is a very useful, and new, one-stop entry-point / gateway for anyone with any interest in or now learning about France, and the French, and things-French: worth-a-journey, and now via a resource-rich website just a mouse-click away.
Among which "resources" is included the following :
* Online now via France.fr : the BnF, and "On l'appelle << Le Labo >>"
[tr. JK]
"The 'Labo': the library of the future"
"The Bibliothe`que nationale de France (BNF) has opened, to the public, a reading room of the future, the only one in Europe equipped with all the latest technologies for information access and knowledge.
"It is called << le Labo >>: a 120 square meter space, nearly 1300 square feet, in the East Hall of the Bibliothe`que Franc,ois-Mitterrand in Paris, next to the reading room.
"The reader, the researcher, or even the simple visitor is met there by a giant touch-screen, offering access to thousands of entries in the digital collections of the BNF.
"These entries are relayed via e-readers and << papier e'lectronique >>, on small screens equipped with a stylus. All the information systems are inter-connected, with Twitter among other sites.
"By providing this place for experiments, the Bibliothe`que Nationale enables users to try out the new media of reading, of writing, and of the distribution of knowledge, which are coming in the future.
"This way the library stays up to date on the new technologies -- 'disruptive' technologies, capable very soon of replacing the book or even the simple computer.
"Workshops and conferences also offer occasions for discussion, of the evolution of the new media, and for expressing the ideas of the BnF on these disruptive technologies.
"A little prototype robot named 'Kompaï' ('companion', in Basque), originally designed to help the aged and the handicapped, also helps visitors by translating data, presenting online catalogs, and guiding them in their reading.
"If you are not yet decided, about visiting this 'espace du futur', the 'Labo' also may be seen on the BnF website, in a virtual reality presentation."
http://labo.bnf.fr/html/accueil.htm
Pour aller plus loin :
Le blog du Labo --
http://labobnf.blogspot.com/
Le Bibliothe`que nationale de France en vide'o sur DailyMotion --
http://www.dailymotion.com/BNF
[* The original note, translated above, on France.fr --]
http://www.france.fr/vivre/detente/loisirs/article/le-labo-la-bibliotheque-du-futur-ouverte-au-public
Bonne route,
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
p.s. And apologies en arrie`re for my reversion, here, to what I thought was my by-now-very-archaic personal "videotex" method of rendering French accents -- comme c,a -- to which I resorted back in the days of IBM ASCII versus Microsoft ASCII etc. Protocol Wars, 1992-1994. But a fried video card and major crash, plus a nice new replacement system, are convincing me that said Wars have flared up again -- I'll document in a future posting.
--oOo--
Copyright © 1992- by Jack Kessler, all rights reserved.
W3 site maintained at http://www.fyifrance.com/
Document maintained by: Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
Last update: December 19, 2010
FYI France : Gypsies in France, 1566 - 2011, A Selected Resource List
FYI France
http://www.fyifrance.com/gypsybib.htm
File 12.73 -- An FYI France Resource List, by Jack Kessler
Last update: October 17, 2010 -- 264 entries so far, combined total for all files -- this is a work-in-progress, more entries will be added, and suggestions of emendations, additions, eliminations all will be gratefully received via email to kessler@well.com -- also available here at fyifrance.blogspot.com, and via Facebook-Jack Kessler's Wall - http://tinyurl.com/2a9xkxu.
Gypsies in France, 1566 - 2011, A Selected Resource List
Comment ça marche:
* The resources listed below must be "selected" -- because the perennial complaining, by gypsies against the French and by the French against gypsies, goes back very far -- it is a long & uncomfortable & impassioned & fascinating relationship, and it forms a very full & complete & sometimes-tragic, & often-joyful, & nearly-always dramatic, history. There are some in France who have worked hard for a very long time on this, it presents a set of complex issues not easily addressed.
* A few websites will be listed separately at the bottom, here, they being far easier nowadays to find and use than other resources. The other entries are listed in descending order by latest publication date, then alphabetically by author/title -- the chronological order because that seems more useful for understanding a particular culture's development than do arbitrary academic categories such as “history” or “politics”, or equally-arbitrary and increasingly-irrelevant bibliographic boxes distinguishing different “media”, such as filmstrips & movies & dvds & floppies & monographs & print journals & articles of clothing & iphones, all of which appear to be merging digitally now anyway, see,
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/acoustic-fibers-0712.html,
http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions.html
* Because a great variety of sources are being used, all pretensions to exact bibliographic description have been abandoned, here -- standardization is attempted and not entirely achieved, but hopefully the data provided at least will help you find the thing -- the indication of a “Cote” is not meant to suggest a unique copy, other institutions may have theirs as well -- universal bibliography still being a chimæra, like universal language (Eco) and universal knowledge (Jeanneney), and hopefully we'll never become so organized and rational and stale as to arrive at any such well-ordered dystopias. The gypsies can help us all with that...
* Sources in various languages are listed, concerning various locales not all in France -- Rajasthan, Slovakia, Romania, Andalusia, etc. -- the goal here being to address the needs of someone interested in “gypsies in France” who also wants to go a little further, to Rajasthan or Slovakia or Romania or al Andaluz or elsewhere, to discover how people there, before they got from there to France or to there from France, live and work and think and play -- a curiosity incumbent upon anyone interested in these people who do not “stay put”, and who get “sent places”, characteristics increasingly typical of all of us now in our Globalizing world.
* This also is a hesitant, tentative, very gun-shy FYI France experiment in "cloud computing"... i.e. Inside this particular “cloud”, will it rain?... and if it does, will the bits get rusty?... And the cross-platform work's not going so well, so far: onthefly mark-up shows readers a moving target, typical of the Internet, please refresh your screens... -- and Google's mini-markup html doesn't like margin settings, so for now I've retreated reluctantly to a famously user-unfriendly format known as Microsoft Word, altho Google doesn’t translate links well from Office2Plus, grrr -- format integration'll get'em every time... please see fyifrance.com for some ongoing generalized discussion of that...
File 1) From 2008 to 2011 --
http://www.fyifrance.com/gypsybib.htm
File 2) Pre-2008 --
http://tinyurl.com/2eb5w3m
File 3) Websites & Current Periodicals, on "Gypsies in France" --
http://tinyurl.com/2c9kj2p
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