Closing of the Roubaix branch

Published by Audrey Chapuis at 21 September 2017

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Reading room of the Roubaix municipal library, 1960.

After nine years of operation, the Roubaix branch of the American Library in Paris closes because the city’s administration decides to create its own municipal library. According to the report made by Ian Forbes Fraser, then director of the American Library, “the new library copies our methods and approach to library service in the greatest details, and the librarians tell us that their readers know how to use a library, thanks in large part to the experience they have had in ours.”

Audrey Chapuis

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