CollEx Persée Network: Reinventing Collections and Services for Research

CollEx-Persée is a research infrastructure set up in France in 2017. It brings together 19 research libraries, 4 national operators and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It aims to facilitate access to and use of library hybrid collections by researchers.  This communication presents the strategy for creating CollEx-Persée and the breakthroughs introduced by this new system, then its organization, networking activities and first achievements. Calls for projects have made a very concrete contribution to bringing librarians and researchers closer together. Finally, the emerging challenges are presented, in particular the management of change within libraries and training for new professions.