Michèle Petit: The library as a garden. Variations on the art of inhabiting the world.

«Listening to those who visit libraries, one quickly realises that they are not only in search of something that would enable them to become more informed, more able to try to «adapt» to the contemporary world and its demands, but that they are also striving to preserve something else, an inner garden. The essential useless thing: something that would allow them to tune in, as in music, to be in harmony with the world that is there, at least from time to time, instead of adapting». Text of the lecture given by Michèle Petit, anthropologist and honorary research engineer at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, as part of the Ranganathan working and study group on 6 February 2020.

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