With only six weeks to go before we meet in Lyon for the IFLA World Library and Information Congress  it’s a good time to read the article ‘An overview of libraries in France’ in the latest IFLA Journal (Volume 40, No 2, June 2014). of particular interest to readers of this blog will be the section on Public Libraries which covers such topics as communal and intercommunal libraries, the Public Information Library (BPI), current developments and libraries as a third place.