Metz-Wikipedia libraries-media libraries

THE Metz libraries-media libraries Are organized in the network of four media libraries and two Libraries of the City Metz: the Pontiffroy media library (network head) with a antenna dedicated to digital services, the Jean-Macé media library in Borny, the Agora in Patrotte Metz-Nord, and that of the Sablon, and the libraries of Magny and Bellecroix ^{[ first ]} .

Municipal library, 1803 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The municipal library was installed in 1803 in the old Carmelite chapel, built in the last third of the XVII ^{It is} century ^{[ 2 ]} . During the Revolution, the premises house the central school of the Moselle before receiving the collections resulting from the confiscation measures taken by the Convention. Some 60,000 volumes are gathered from the chapter of the cathedral-which held the most beautiful set of manuscripts-, from the Saint-Sauveur collegial, of the four male abbeys of Saint-Arnould, Saint-Clément, Saint-Symphorien and Saint Vincent, from the Abbey of Women Sainte-Glossinde, as well as the Jesuit, Celestins, Dominican, Great and Small Carmelites, Trinitarians, Recollets, Priests of the Mission, etc. The books that belonged to different ecclesiastical libraries are also attached to it in the vicinity of Metz as well as the collections of several institutions of the old regime such as the order of lawyers in the Parliament of Metz or the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences.

The whole, entrusted to the custody of improvised librarians, is quickly amputated by its most beautiful pieces. The humidity, dust and rodents destroy part of what vandalism and indifference have spared. The city library opens its doors to the public by November 1811 ^{[ 3 ]} , eight years later, with only 25,000 volumes.

Along the XIX ^{It is} A century, the collections increased regularly due to the purchases made and thanks to donations from the State, as well as the legacy, sometimes very important, so that the initial fund is multiplied by two around 1880. Among the most remarkable donors, it is necessary to quote Baron Louis Numa de Salis, who left the city 124 manuscripts ^{[ 4 ]} , around twenty incunable, a collection of medieval scrolls and several thousand old editions, engravings, drawings.

The collections undergo serious losses during the Second World War when a fire declares the night of the August 31 At first ^is September 1944 In two of the three boxes of Fort Saint-Quentin, on the heights of the city, where the most precious documents had been stored: 588 manuscripts disappear on a total of 1,475 inventoried in the general catalog of 1879 and its 1933 supplement, As well as 165 incunabble on 614 volumes of incunable (representing 781 bibliographic units) ^{[ 5 ]} .

Pontiffroy media library, 1977 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

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The Metz central media library is integrated into the rebuilt district of Pontiffroy.

The historic building in the heart of the city becomes too cramped. In view of better protection of collections and to increase the comfort offered to much more users than before, a library is designed by architect Michel Folliasson in the 1970s in the Pontiffroy district facing the old abbey Benedictine Saint-Clément in the center of a newly urbanized district. It opens its doors to the public the 5 mars 1977 , after two years of work ^{[ 6 ]} . The October 28 , the new library takes the name of media library (first use in France) while retaining, to familiarize the public with this neologism, the name of “library-media library”. It’s the November 22, 1977 that all services (Studies and adults sections, child library with tale time room and expression workshop, children’s literature relay for teachers and trainers, exhibition hall and nightclub) was open to everyone 1,800 m ² of spaces to the public, while almost eleven kilometers of shelving were spread over the three levels of reserves.

During the official inauguration, the January 25, 1979 , Jean-Philippe Lecat, Minister of Culture and Communication, rather to salute the innovative character and the regional dimension of the Pontiffroy media library which was inspired by the experience of the Beaubourg Center opened for less than two years, after That mayor Jean-Marie Rausch had devoted this library to be devoted as a real place of animation and communication.

Architecture [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The site built on slab near the old town (400 m as the crow flies from the prefecture and 600 m Cathedral) benefits from a space entirely devoted to pedestrians, withdrawn from car traffic. The architectural party makes readable, by a set of unleashing of simple and geometric volumes supporting roof terraces on different levels, the differentiated functions of the internal spaces of the library.

The facades present by their appearance a unit of materials: the full parts have ocher and clear natural hues without a solution of continuity; Large glass surfaces with metal joinery outcrops on the facade while the walls of certain functional elements such as stairwells are covered with slate.

Missions and development [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Since 1990, the Pontiffroy media library has set up new services for its users: a news room, a language learning service and a marmotheque dedicated to toddlers.

Today, more than 5,400 m ² surface provide a large collection of books, a nightclub, an audiovisual service, a documentation relay in children’s literature, an exhibition hall, digital heritage collections, Wi-Fi service, a digital digital service library ^{[ 7 ]} …

In 2016 it was the subject of a refresh of public trays.

Innovative communication [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The wish to set up a new form of dissemination, to adopt a marketing approach, to be in line with the methods of thought of communication, encouraged to be freed from traditional practices in the library. In what ways simultaneously transform the image of the profession and those of the messines libraries, while amplifying their notoriety ^{[ 8 ]} ?

Creation of Miss Média [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Miss Média, atypical librarian and avatar of Metz libraries-media libraries appeared the first time on the site of the Metz libraries-media libraries in a strip press (comic strip in three boxes) in January 2009 . Its creation announced at the same time the decline in municipal prices concerning libraries. According to the graphic command of the BMMs, André Faber, designer, journalist and graphic designer, drew the character. Sober of holding, the white and black colors correspond to the coat of arms of the city of Metz, it embodies the BMMs as well as the profession of librarian ^{[ 9 ]} .

Miss Média and Le Graoully

Full of humor, she likes in her distributed the agreed ideas circulating about libraries and the information society.

In 2014 Jean Chauvelot has taken over by redrawing Miss Media in new features. For the rest of her graphic adventures she is accompanied by the remarkable Graoully, Dragon Messin.

Jean-Macé de Borny media library, 1993 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1993, the opening of the Jean-Macé de Borny media library ^{[ ten ]} , desired modern it offers wide access to cultural content and also offers temporary exhibitions. Its establishment nearby the Hauts-de-Des sector is initiating a long process of modernization and opening up from the Borny district called the large city project.

It was enlarged in 2008 and now connects all its activities on a single level ^{[ 11 ]} .

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Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Encyclopedia of Lorraine, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Éditions Serpenoise, 1988, Tome: “Intellectual life”, article “Médiathèque du Pontiffroy” p. 228 .
• Moselle, Projection editions, 2009 (the routes), article “Libraries-Médiatheques de Metz”, pages 122-128.
• Les Cahiers Elie-Fleur, Revue des Libraries-Médiatheques de Metz, city of Metz, 1990-2004.
• The notebooks of Medamothi, Revue des Libraries-Médiatheques de Metz, city of Metz, since 2007.
• Libraries offered, a century of enrichment of the precious collections of the Municipal Library of Metz, Pontiffroy media library, 1991.

References [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Time events, 200 years of the Metz library 1804-2004 , under the direction of Pierre Louis on the occasion of the exhibition presented at the Pontiffroy media library in February in April 2004 , Libraries-media libraries in the city of Metz, 2004.
• Lorraine encyclopedia , University Press of Nancy, Publishing Editions, 1988, Tome: “Intellectual Life”, article “Pontiffroy media library” p. 228
• Moselle , Projection editions, 2009 (the routes), article “Bibliothèques-Médiatheques de Metz”, pages 122-128
• Elie-Fleur Cahiers , Revue des Libraries-Médiazheques de Metz, city of Metz, 1990-2004
• Medamotho’s notebooks , Revue des Libraries-Médiazheques de Metz, city of Metz, since 2007.
• Libraries offered, a century of enrichment of the precious collections of the Municipal Library of Metz , Pontiffroy media library, 1991