The professionals of libraries and museums imagine various ways to maintain the link with their public in spite of their closure to the public, and ensure a continuity of the cultural public service.

The Association des Bibliothécaires de France (ABF) has recommended that library institutions and networks make their digital services available to all users, even those who are not registered, but the decision is up to the communities.

Libraries have online resources that are not well known to the general public: books, documents and films that can be consulted for free.

La Gazette des Communes reports Aude Devilliers, director of the municipal libraries of Tours (Indre-et-Loire), reports: " For the time being, contact via our website seems to be the most obvious way to maintain the link with the public, as well as social networks, but it is not certain this morning that we will have the agents to run them. Teleworking is largely implemented, so we will make sure to work on favorites, highlights ... but this will be mostly worth it for the future!"

The library closed, but still present...

Among the tracks considered:

• Open a Youube channel
• Open a blog that can last afterwards, like a story, with a theme per day.
• Communicate with audiences via social networks. Take the opportunity to engage in a rich dialogue with them: how they are doing, what they are doing/reading/watching/cooking, etc. And of course offer online resources related to this.
• Highlight a few digital resources each day for all ages, and uses: e.g., a school resource, a MOOC for adults, an audiobook, a movie, a podcast, a coloring book, a video game, etc.
• Communicate about free digital resources: VOD, audiobooks, podcasts, coloring books...
• Book clubs in online conference mode.
• Use web conferencing tools to maintain book clubs and other small cultural gatherings (possibility of bringing in local storytellers with equipment...)
• Organize, animate on social networks (or other platform) exquisite corpse/writing workshops?
• Doing challenges on Facebook
• Offer registration to our digital resource platform(s) via a web form
• Propose reliable sources of information, fight against fake news
• Collecting heritage archives in order to enrich their local digital collection: digitization of personal archives (letters, postcards, family photos and films...), collection of testimonies
• Provide access even to non-subscribing institutions
• Refer to freely available online textbooks, such as our digital tutoring resources.

Many libraries and media libraries in France offer access to video on demand through various partners, such as Univers Ciné or Arte VoD. To access it, it is generally enough to be registered in one of the libraries of the concerned network and to have your reader's identifiers. Once connected, it will be possible to view, sometimes with a limitation, recent or not so recent films, in a variety of genres, as well as documentaries.

Libraries Without Borders is transforming itself into a "100% digital and free library".

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