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Quel beau panorama offers us the guests of this special Arabic issue! Thanks to their enlightened and benevolent contributions, they together tell how an original and rich French IST landscape has been built, and what place Abes occupies in it among many partners. And because it is pleasant to be able to say thank you for making this issue a real "orientation table", which tells us where we come from. ; Quel beau panorama nous offrent les invités de ce numéro spécial d'Arabesques ! Grâce à leurs contributions éclairées et bienveillantes, ils racontent ensemble comment s'est construit un paysage de l'IST française original et riche, et quelle place l'Abes y occupe parmi de nombreux partenaires. Et comme il est agréable de pouvoir dire merci à chacun-e d'avoir fait de ce numéro une vraie « table d'orientation », qui nous dit d'où nous venon …

French Polynesia and New Caledonia library and archives collections are typically in French and tend to be organized according to French institutional and scientific methods. Recent transfers of power from the French State toward certain territorial institutions have not significantly changed this fact. This particular situation is, on the one hand, a source of enrichment because it creates diversity within the Pacific region and because these sources of documentation and the way they are organized link these territories to larger repositories of knowledge in France and elsewhere in Europe. On the other hand, it is also an isolation factor in the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, whose inhabitants are mainly anglophone, and in an academic world that is also dominated by the growing use of English. After a listing and presentation of all the libraries and media centers existing in French Polynesia and New Caledonia, the focus of this essay moves on to the question of partnerships to be built between the various institutions of these two territories, metropolitan French libraries and networks, and English-language institutions of the Pacific region.