The aim of the French Union Catalogue is precisely to supply researchers with an integrated search system enabling them to identify, localize their documents. Audiovisual in public libraries has been developping a lot these last twenty years, due to more and more lendings of discs and videocassettes. On the other hand, the listening in the library with the aim of study or research is very limited. However, we have to keep in mind that French people are finding a new interest in sound documents, concealed at other times by the interest for images. The Ministery of Culture helps make survey about the sound heritage.
Publishers are willing again to publish oral materials.
The people's taste for orality is keeping with a general movement of search for one's roots.