A truck arriving in town could have created a stir 10-15 years ago perhaps, for lovers of burgers, tacos, paninis and other street food miracles. But today, nothing but very commonplace in the urban landscape.
With one nuance. This mini-truck, which has appeared in three parks in Nancy, has a small specific singularity. In addition to its cheerful flanks bearing the characters of the graphic designer Fabien Veançon, it conveys a rather particular food, but not the least tasty: books. A mission for which it was chartered by the municipal libraries.
The Kraft Truck – for such is its name – is the visible (and mobile!) part of a new way of thinking about library work in Nancy: maximum proximity. The four libraries sown in a diagonal crossing (Médiathèques du Haut-Dul, Manu, Stanislas library and St-Pierre media library), although firmly anchored in their respective districts, are not enough to ensure complete coverage of the territory. “But today, we expect culture to be available nearby,” says Claire Rannou, on behalf of the DRAC, a partner in the operation. “And even almost delivered to your home! »
A finding that the epidemic has only confirmed. During the turmoil, libraries also had to adapt, and set up their own click & collect system. It was then that the Kraft packages were imagined. In other words, small bags (in kraft paper, etc.) filled with books that readers could order remotely, and pick up at the doors of media libraries.
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From books to the bike workshop!
Today, libraries and media libraries have returned to their traditional functioning, but not all users, far from it. “The concern to go towards…” (to use the semantics of the cultural assistant Bertrand Masson) is thereby reinforced. “To conquer all audiences, you have to meet them. This is what the little truck equipped with ingenuity by the association La Cagette, and animated by the librarians Aurore and Thomas, will do.
But this is only one aspect of the Kraft operation, which will also see, from the end of March, five counters open. In other words, five addresses of “partner” sites, where users can withdraw their orders for borrowing documents (and return them there), without having to cross half the city. In order to complete the territorial network.
“Originally, we had imagined a system of lockers,” says Isabelle Huber, director of the La Manufacture media library. “But we wanted something less anonymous, and we preferred to solicit partners in the flesh. That’s three MJCs, a museum… and even a bike workshop. The books have launched their great invasion!
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