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AbstractThis paper studies the principles and perceptions of the public's expectations and needs that determine the way the collections of Parisian public libraries are constituted and organized. Which publics are they to serve? How may they serve both the community and its individual members? How can a public library's holdings take every explicit or implicit demand into account, however various they are? Questioning the concept of “public utility,” the article examines the way symbolic value and use value are articulated and how consideration of the “general public” may sometimes lead to a kind of “censorship by average choices.” How can the rationale behind promoting library holdings coexist with a rationale of responding to demand? Finally, the article asks the question of cultural democratisation, examining the way holdings can reciprocally determine the demand and contribute to defining the publics they are really serving, and thus, by default of the mediating process, also exclude.
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Keywords: partenariat école-famille-communauté, milieu rural, collaboration, littératie
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