“I have been in public reading for 24 years,” says Sylvie Moulin, manager of the media library (La MéMo), whose opening in 2019 was “a highlight” of her professional career spent for 38 years in Monein, after 5 years in animation. On Wednesday October 30, with a heavy heart, she turned the last page of her book Moneinchon to assert her retirement rights. “I was made available to the library – which was an activity of the Foyer rural – to develop this service for schoolchildren,” rewinds the newly retired woman.
Having become municipal in 2005, the library joined the reading center of the community of municipalities (CCLO) in 2011 which assigned new missions to the Monein structure, whose room of less than 100 m² proved to be cramped. “From there was born the reflection of the media library project which will open its doors 8 years later, in the center of the town”, relates Sylvie Moulin for whom the influence of La MéMo will be reflected in its new 400 m² space . He added that the structure “stands out within the CCLO network by the integration of a cuisine and its strong identity around local culture”.
In Soule
“I have a deep attachment to public service and public reading,” also expresses this reading activist who praised the introduction of the “quarter hour reading” at college, then the “reader village” system in 2019 , launched by Yves Salanave-Péhé. “The taste for reading is also the taste for understanding the world,” she says before deploring “the excessive use of screens today.” “However, I think that people are not reading less but differently, with shorter, more entertaining and more varied readings.”
Arriving in 2018, Virginie Amat-Supervielle will succeed Sylvie Moulin at the head of La MéMo where Mappy Massoué and more occasionally Linda Orak also work. “I will continue to read, to tell stories but also to write short stories, tales and other texts,” confides Sylvie Moulin, who will retire to Soule near her family.
The last moments within La MéMo for Sylvie Moulin.
Hervé Pouyau
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