210 chemin de granet
13090 Aix en provence
France
- International/Cultural relations
1. French association of law 1901 3 employees and 80 volunteers . 2. Annual budget 2005: 154 000€ 3. Public local, regional , national and European subsidies (FEDER/projet Interreg IIIC NOE), own funds ,(contributions, exhibition locations , allowances, donations ). 4. Regional and international cooperation about books and readings : concrete projects of books donations , libraries formation , technical assistance , expertises , professional and cultural exchange . 5. principal partners : French foreign libraries of public reading ( nationals or municipals) universities or associations. also editors and booksellers for donations or book purchase . local and foreign communities . French embassies for books reception and for the FSP ( Funds of priority solidarity ) / project of public reading .
Mission: the Regional Bank of the Book is a tool for regional and international co-operation to the service of the diffusion of the book and reading in direction of all the professionals of the book in its countries partners: and especially in the southern rivers and the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, Africa. Objectives: to give to the population a better access to the culture in general and the reading in particular, to contribute to the professionalisation of the libraries staff , to make cultural and professional exchanges and on the work practices and on the written, sonorous and visual productions in the countries .
Regional co-operation: collect books coming from the libraries, booksellers, editors. Technical assistance to the libraries for the withdrawal of the books. Animation of the network of volunteer librarians. Reception of librarians of the training region . The Councils and gifts of books to structures which have projects of libraries abroad. trainers formation , participation at books exhibitions , conferences . International cooperation : sending French books ( in the respect of the book donation charter ) ,purchasing new books in the language of the country bilingual books . receptions of foreign librarian trainees , missions of follow-up and evaluation of the projects, missions of technical assistance to the libraries, participation books exhibition , conferences and network setting.