Bibliodebout: a collaborative library in a

social movement

Raphaëlle Bats, raphaelle.bats@enssib.frMarilou Pain, marilou.pain@live.fr

Outline

1/ Introduction

2/ Litterature review

3/ Methodology

4/ Results & Discussion

5/ Conclusion

Introduction

The #BiblioDebout

5th of April to 22th of October 2016

A collaborative and participative library

Free & on a gift basis

In a context of a social movement

🔸“Nuit Debout”, From March to July 2016

🔸Massive occupation of places in French cities and villages

🔸First, a reaction to the El Khomri law,

🔸Then, an opportunity to recreate democratic debate and public space.

Problem

🔸 If the quality of life depends on our capacity for action,

🔸we ought to ask which resources participate in its development,

🔸and thus question the role of knowledge in an empowerment project.

And if public libraries aim to emancipate citizens, thus studying the BiblioDebout could show us another way to reach that goal.

Literature Review

Philosophy

🔸Power and political action depending on knowledge (Aristotle, Foucault)

🔸Knowledge is not enough to insure action (Platon, Bourdieu, Innerarity)

🔸Participation and equality can help to develop a co-dependant relation between knowledge and power (Dewey, Rancière)

Litterature review

Methodology

Methodology

A qualitative study

🔸17 participative observations in BiblioDebout Lyon

🔸Text and data mining of the BiblioDebout’s mailing lists: 381 messages

🔸Reading of the #Bibliodebout (Twitter)

Results & Discussion

The library drawned by BiblioDebout is

Utopian Egalitarian

Emotional Experimental

Utopian

Time & Space• From occupation to

nomadism

• > With its time

Over the social movement• After Nuit Debout,• with other

mobilizations• > Non in the

immediacy

Utopia• Less a tool for a

movement,• than a political

experiment of redefinition of the library

Egalitarian

BiblioDeboutistes

• Librarians, ex-librarians or aspirant librarians / Librists

• Collections, mediation, advices,

•> Librarians’ Expertise

Visitors / donnors

•Onlookers / activistes & participants / anonymous insitutions / Publishers

•Curiosity / opportunity / Emotion / Learning / Souvenirs

•> Mobilized knowledge

Equality

• Acknowledgement of each expertise

• The library is not at the service of the community, but it is the community

Emotional

Interactions•From books to sociability

•Individual experience of reading / Collective experience of discussion

•> The Waterfall Effects

The gift experience

•To give and Receive

•Free

• > “The BiblioDebout is a Common”

Stories

•Testimonies on the website

•>an experience to live or to know

Emotion

•Emotion : feelings and desire

•Affects: to create new commitments

Experimental

Collection•Printed books, leaflets, ebooks

•Built by gifts

•> No prescription

Debates•Selection and Censorship ?

•Mediation & cultural events

•> Prescription in question

Experience•Focus on the Praxis

•Reproduction of the gifts experience

•Prescription by action instead of by contents

Conclusion

Conclusion

BiblioDebout helps to question the political vocation of Public Libraries, a trendy topic in France today.

To take on this role, the PL has to: Redefining its neutrality, Increasing participative projects, Not only « making society », but « making

community », Redefining role of institution: not what is

setting, but what is moving.

Sources

🔸BIBLIO-DEBOUT, http://biblio-debout.org/ 🔸Liste de diffusion BD Lyon🔸Liste de diffusion BD Paris🔸Observations BD Lyon

References

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Thanks!Any questions?Raphaëlle Bats, rbats.pro@gmail.comMarilou Pain, marilou.pain@live.fr