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Récit et médiation des collections. Comment on raconte l’histoire des bibliothèques
“Narratives fundamentally contribute to the development of societies, cultures, and identities. Deprived of this ability to tell themselves what they used to be, what they are and what they could be, identities would be divested of the power to transform their reference points embedded in language and in the whole symbolic field” [Saillant, Lachance, 2012, p. 7]. The same can be said about public libraries, institutions which have been seeking scientific, political and social legitimacy since their emergence in the middle of the modern era.
What is the link between these narratives about libraries and history, which is in itself a form of narrative [Chartier, 1994], especially when mediation affects heritage collections that are part of various temporalities? What are the invariable and the distinguishing elements of these narratives? What does narrativity bring to mediation? What part do imagination, feelings and emotions play in it?
Aside from any value judgement on the gap between mediation and erudition, we would like with this issue to bring to light, thanks to various case studies, the process that gathers the elements of this history, simplifies it and re-uses it in the public sphere.
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Éditorial [Full text]
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Introduction [Full text]
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Préambule [Full text]Iconothèques : l’image dans les mots et dans les images de la collection
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Dossier. Récit et médiation des collections. Comment on raconte l’histoire des bibliothèques
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Articles
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Formes et enjeux du récit dans la médiation en ligne des collections patrimoniales
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Mettre en récit l’absence de collections [Full text]La renaissance de la maison natale de Jean Giraudoux
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Réflexions
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Réactivation d’une collection patrimoniale dormante en bibliothèque universitaire
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Des origines savantes [Full text]Aux origines de l’historiographie et de la présentation des fonds précieux de la Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat (1841-1951)
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