Free access to computers, integrated digital public spaces, awareness workshops, support in daily activities, discovery of digital technology through various uses (reading, listening, games...), "media education" workshops to develop discernment of online information... Touching various publics (young people, elderly people, parents, etc.), and having social and cultural animation skills, libraries have many assets to support the public towards digital empowerment
The Ministry of Culture's 2018 Libraries Plan had expanded the missions devolved to libraries. As actors of social inclusion, they must "promote digital inclusion and actions carried out in the social field." These orientations were endorsed in the 2018 national strategy for an inclusive digital and by the launch in 2019 of a working group around the issue of digital inclusion in libraries.
The recent provisions of the Recovery Plan for digital inclusion provide substantial resources for the training of digital mediators. Libraries are among the potential locations for future digital advisors recruited under the Recovery Plan.
The ADBGV (Association of Directors of Municipal Libraries and Intercommunal Groups of French Cities) devoted its annual study day in 2018, to the role of libraries in digital inclusion.
The Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France has just devoted its latest issue to issue to digital inclusion practices and devices in libraries, with experiences and case studies.
Summary of the magazine- Reine Bürki: Editorial
- Philippe Archias, Solène Manouvrier Understanding the diversity of practices to support digital empowerment. A look back at the Digital Capital study
- Malik Diallo Libraries for digital inclusion
- Thierry Claerr : Strengthening the role of libraries in the fight against the digital divide
- Céline Cadieu-Dumont, Aurélien Moreau: The challenges of digital inclusion in departmental libraries
- Mathilde Chauvigné: Digital inclusion in rural areas. A digital reference library in Indre-et-Loire
- Carole Duguy : Digital mediation in libraries A professional point of view
- Aurélie Bertrand: Include through empowerment. The hypothesis of the cultural third place La Bulle
- Marc Martinez: University libraries: the challenges of digital acculturation
- Florence Codet, Clémence Desrues, Anne-Cécile Grandmougin, Goran Sekulovski : The sCD Paris-8 and e-inclusion Towards a digital emancipation
- Marc Bergère: Digital transition and inequalities: a challenge for universities
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