Inauguration du Distributeur d'Histoires Courtes - (crédit photo : Thomas Arrivé, Sciences Po)

Le distributeur d’histoires courtes du 27 Saint-Guillaume en agrémente le hall central depuis février 2022. Quelle meilleure occasion que l’inauguration du distributeur du campus Saint-Thomas pour remettre leurs prix aux trois lauréats du concours d’histoires courtes organisé par le Centre d’écriture et de rhétorique (CER) de Sciences Po ? 

Des abris bus ou tramway sont désormais dotés de distributeurs d’histoires courtes, tandis qu’un service dématérialisé via QR codes est en cours de déploiement. © Jules Peyron – Place Gre’net

Depuis le mois d’oc­tobre 2022, huit dis­tri­bu­teurs d’his­toires courtes ont été ins­tal­lés à proxi­mité d’a­bris voya­geurs de bus ou de tram­way de l’ag­glo­mé­ra­tion gre­no­bloise. Une initiative qui réunit trois partenaires : l’entreprise JCDecaux, le Syndicat mixte des mobilités de l’aire grenobloise (Smmag) et la société grenobloise Short édition qui propose déjà des distributeurs dans plusieurs lieux publics de Grenoble.
Objectif revendiqué de l’opération ? « La promotion de la culture pour tous auprès des citoyens et passagers des transports grenoblois », décrivent les trois partenaires.

Le Distributeur d'Histoires Courtes à la Clinique Pasteur à Toulouse

A la clinique Pasteur, le patient est placé au cœur du fonctionnement. Et pour proposer une expérience patient la meilleure possible, il faut accompagner sa prise en charge de façon globale, tout au long de son parcours, médical et non médical et prendre en compte le retour d’expérience pour améliorer les pratiques. [...] 

Short Story Dispenser

Travelers flying through Eugene Airport can now pick up free reading at a new short story dispenser provided in a partnership between the Airport, Eugene Public Library and Eugene Public Library Foundation.
People of all ages can use a touch-free button to choose Local, International, or For Kids options, then receive a free short story or poem printed on demand like a receipt using ink-free recycled paper. 

BAY AREA - For the past year and a half, BART has actively worked to convert its ridership into a readership with a free in-station short story dispensing system at a handful of stations.

Launched in January 2021, the Short Story Dispenser kiosks have delivered 17,198 short stories to riders at the Richmond, Fruitvale, Balboa Park and Pleasant Hill stations, according to BART officials.

The stories are written to be read within one, three or five minutes and are printed by the no-touch kiosks on recyclable paper, BART officials said in a news release Monday.

"What pushed us to really move this project forward is that the Bay Area has such a wealth of bookstores, readers and writers," said BART Art Program Manager Jennifer Easton.

Nouveau au CDI, le Cub'Edito pour découvrir des lectures courtes à imprimer

Cube de 32 centimètres de côté pour un poids de 6 à 7 kilos, le Cub'Édito se présente comme une version miniaturisée de la borne bien connue de Short Édition. 
« Sa conception a démarré juste après le premier confinement, en 2020, pour répondre aux nombreuses demandes de miniaturisation du dispositif », nous explique Kévin Barbier, responsable du développement commercial au sein de la maison.

Reynolds demonstrated how to use the Short Story Cube at Dutton/Brady Junior High and High School in Dutton on May 24.

For the first time since the pandemic started, author Jason Reynolds took to the road for his first in-person tour in his role as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a program of the Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader.
Reynolds has held the position since 2020, and he headed to Montana last month to restart his in-person school visits. The tour, under Reynolds’s Grab the Mic: Tell Your Story platform, was in collaboration with digital publisher Short Edition to provide Short Story Cubes, devices that allow students to create, edit, and print stories of their own making. We’ve gathered a selection of photos from the events.

San Francisco's transit system hopes short stories printed on receipts for riders will benefit both commuters and creative writers.

Do you ever get to the train station and realize you forgot to bring something to read? Yes, we all have our phones, but many of us still like to go old school and read something printed.

Well, there's a kiosk for that. In the San Francisco Bay Area, at least.

Manoj Simha reads a short story distributed by a newly established kiosk at SEPTA’s Tasker-Morris station. Jack Tomczuk

Underground, at the Broad Street Line’s Tasker-Morris station in South Philadelphia, there’s now a mini-library. Riders, by placing their hand over touchless buttons, can now get free short stories, printed on store receipt-like paper. Many of the tales were written by local students.

The kiosks, which are also at the BSL’s Erie station, are part of a campaign unveiled Wednesday to engage kids and families taking SEPTA — and, ultimately, to boost literacy levels among the city’s children.

Many of us have whiled away the minutes on a bus or a train with a book. Now the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the public transportation authority of San Francisco, is looking to attract riders back to public transportation by distributing short stories at select stations. 

Stéphane Colson devant le Cub’Edito. Photo Progrès /Dominique CHENE

Qu’est ce que le Cub' Édito ?
« C’est un distributeur d’histoires courtes, transportable, qui permet aux collégiens d’imprimer une œuvre courte sur un papier recyclable à partir de collections de Short Edition, éditeur et créateur grenoblois du Cub' Édito.

Short Story Dispenser at Pleasant Hill BART Station. Photographer: Maria Avila/BART

In unassuming corners of metro and train stations in cities all over the world, beyond the ticket machines and behind the throngs of people, there are vending machines that spit out stories. Even though I’ve apparently walked past one of the short story dispensers installed in four Bay Area Rapid Transit stations several times, I never knew they existed – until last week.