Presenter: Frédéric Spagnoli, Maître de conférences italien / co-directeur master Rare Book and Digital Humanities (Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
Abstract:
Since its creation in 2019, our Master’s degree Rare Book and Digital Humanities hosted at the Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Besançon, East of France) has welcomed students from four continents and fourteen different countries thus reflecting different ways of working in, with and for a library. While attending classes and while working on research projects, all the students work with both the library of the university (Bibliothèque Universitaire de Besançon) and the city library (Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon), the second oldest city library in France. Both libraries work very differently one from another and students often have to adapt from one to the other. Yet, both libraries are planning to merge in 2025 in a new common building with storage facilities, reading rooms and loan desks. How will students use this new library? How would students like this library to be? It is common among university staff to think that students would like to have the largest possible access to libraries but are we really sure of this? Based on interviews of first and second years students as well as of recently graduates, the aim of this paper is to try to identify students’ point of view and to determine if free and unlimited accesses to libraries and their collections are really what students are looking for. This will hopefully help to define targeted accesses to the 2025 library.
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