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About eight years ago, the Bibliothèque Paul-Émile Boulet of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) adopted a new approach to the librarian-professor relationship and physically located a librarian within a university department. This delocalisation was seen as a means to bring users and the librarian into closer contact. In doing so, the librarian becomes part of the community, fostering a closer partnership between the library and the department. This article outlines the principle of delocalisation as well as the experience of the UQAC : the implementation of such a project, the difficulties to avoid as well as the challenges are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A research project, commissioned by Québec's Ministëre de Ia Culture, des Communications et de Ia Condition feminine, is currently underway. A number of results are now available and are presented in this article. Five approaches, mainly quantitative, are used to describe the non-users and the infrequent users of Québec's public libraries. These results echo those in previously published documents. This article establishes links to these documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mediation - a unifying term for some and a catch-all for others - designates a number of activities that facilitate the interaction of users with library collections. For heritage libraries located in university settings, this mission requires a large body of documents because the collections themselves constitute an object of study. Deemed ⪡unnatural⪢ mediation became necessary in order to re-establish a relationship with the heritage because this relationship was fractured by a number of events in the history of Québec. To be interested in mediation requires that one be interested in the context that gave rise to its development and to explore a new form of culture with a given population, its codes and its territory. It also invites one to explore the different paths that heritage can take and to reflect on its many functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]