"In many cities in Québec, the public library is now the most important cultural investment and is at the heart of cultural politics. A study by l'Observatoire de la culture et des communications showed that in 2004 the eleven cities over 100 000 inhabitants, Montréal, Québec, Laval, Gatineau, Lévis, Longueuil, Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Saguenay, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières, which comprise 52% of the population of Québec, spent 7.2% of their expenditure on culture, meaning 371.2 million dollars ($ 93 per capita). Public libraries accounted for 46% of the budgets allocated to culture. « Les Arts et la Ville* » is now more than a slogan and a shared goal of municipal leaders **. "
Excerpt of Bibliothèques publiques au Québec: une institution stratégique pour le développement culturel by Marcel Lajeunesse; Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France , Paris, 2009, t. 54, no 3.
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http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2009-03-0064-004
* « Les Arts et la Ville », nonprofit organization founded in 1987, joins the municipalities (currently 423 municipalities) and the cultural organisations (129 cultural organizations) to promote and support cultural and artistic development of municipalities in Quebec .
** Rapport de l'Observatoire de la Culture et des Communications du Québec , cited in Le Devoir (Montréal), February 16, 2007.
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