Faced with disastrous official reports and the anger of the personnel who accuse him of inaction, the new municipal majority defends his advances.
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Black veil on her head, Elodie Debureau agitates her bell in front of the closed doors of the Alcazar, the municipal library with a regional vocation of Marseille (1 er ). Wednesday, October 26, surrounded by around thirty agents, this CGT union delegate participates in the strike day, launched by its union and the unitary union federation, which affects Marseille libraries.
“Today is the future of public reading in this city that is played”, alerts this agent who works in Saint-André (16
A provisional report of the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research, Revealed on October 4 by the Marsactu Information site , Confirm, if necessary, the critical state of the Marseille public reading system. Between 2004 and 2021, the staff melted by 31 %; The per capita library surface is three times less than in Lyon; And there are 90 agents missing “at least to return to normal operation”, while 90 others will retire within five years.
A situation that inspectors explain by a conjunction of factors, many of which are linked to the previous mandate of Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR): the non-replacement of retirements from 2007 to 2020, the multiple reclassifications of ‘Agents of other services “who have little appetite for the professions of the library”, and “the exhaustion of those who have remained”. So many elements that nourish an ill-being at work and a high absenteeism rate (14.6 % in 2021). And affect the reception of audiences, the offer or the conservation of documents.
The report thus points to the case of thousands of manuscripts and portulans (old marine cards), threatened by the humidity of the alcazar basements. “The heritage division, and more particularly the team of rare and precious funds, is no longer able to ensure [its] mission (…), and the conditions of conservation of the heritage collections do not correspond to the recommended standards”, Inspectors are alarmed. On the strike, around their union representatives, the agents testify anonymously. One tells how he goes around the dehumidifiers installed in an emergency to remove “ten liters of water per day”. The other evokes the “directors of libraries which remain barely two years”, “computers in harbor”, the burn-out of colleagues. “We hold because there is the public and that we remain convinced that our work is used for something”, breathes a specialist in youth reading.
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