The Calliopé network brings together the media libraries of the towns of Caudan, Cléguer, Pont-Scorff, Gestel and Quéven. It offers a new service, a shuttle for transporting documents between media libraries. Opened in January 2019, the Calliopé network has a single subscription card, an internet portal and a common catalog. It serves 5,336 subscribers. 266,000 document loans were made in 2024. Its catalog is made up of 106,000 documents.
“There was a real expectation on the part of our readers”
At the start of 2025, a new service is being offered to network subscribers: the documentary shuttle. “There was a real expectation on the part of our readers,” says Christelle Le Rouzic, director of the Quéven media library. “Every week, a shuttle will circulate between the five media libraries to bring documents reserved by subscribers,” indicates Hélène Lagu-Lancien, director of the Caudan media library, where the service was presented on Tuesday January 14. Subscribers can reserve documents at the media library reception, on the calliope.bzh website or on the Mabibli application. They choose the media library where they wish to collect their documents. These are prepared by the librarians, boxed and transported by the shuttle to the collection library.
Single initiative, multiple objectives
The objectives of this service are to improve accessibility to the documentary offering for audiences who cannot travel, to optimize access to the network's documentary offering, to contribute to the reduction of individual travel and to encourage the optimization of travel linked to the borrowing of documents. “It is also a tool that contributes to the attractiveness of our municipalities,” underlines Françoise Merret, deputy mayor of Gestel.
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