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Author : W. J. Murison
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Download or read book The Public Library: Its Origins, Purpose, and Significance as a Social Institution written by W. J. Murison and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William John Murison
Publisher : London : Harrap
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Public Library: Its Origins, Purpose, and Significance written by William John Murison and published by London : Harrap. This book was released on 1971 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William John Murison
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Download or read book The Public Library; Its Origins, Purpose, and Significance as a Social Institution written by William John Murison and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William John Murison
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Public Library. Its Origins, Purpose, and Significance as a Social Institution, Etc written by William John Murison and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lowell Martin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810847545
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Enrichment written by Lowell Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overviews the notable events and underlying trends that either furthered or deterred the growth of the institution. For each of six periods during the century, summarizes the social, cultural, and political characteristics then reviews the broad thrust of library service and details notable professional developments. The introduction provides the 19th-century background. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Paul Sykes
Publisher : London : Bingley ; Munich ; New York : K. G. Saur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Public Library in Perspective written by Paul Sykes and published by London : Bingley ; Munich ; New York : K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McMenemy
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856046168
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Public Library written by David McMenemy and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public libraries have changed beyond anyone's predictions in the past ten years and are at a vital stage in their historical development. This timely book is the first standalone text to examine the role and services of the UK public library in the 21st century context. The book discusses the nature and functions of the modern public library service, from its beginnings as the street-corner university, through its delivery of state-of-the-art services and beyond. At the heart of the book is a passionate argument for the professional and public significance of the public library service. The key chapters are: public libraries: the modern context historical development of public libraries equity of access cultural and leisure roles information, advice and informed citizenship lifelong learning the impact of ICT management, governance and budgeting issues performance measurement and evaluation professional and staffing issues marketing, branding and buildings the public library of tomorrow. Readership: Of interest to all students and researchers of library and information science, as well as professionals in public libraries, this book is an advocacy tool for an essential service consistently under pressure.
Author : Wendy Evans
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780632630
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Libraries and Society written by Wendy Evans and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively. Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the major challenges that libraries – however defined, managed, developed and provided – now face, and will continue to face in the future. It also focuses on the emerging chapter in cultural, economic and social history and the library's role in serving diverse communities within this new era. - Looks at all types of library in a period of major and discontinuous change, tackling the fundamental questions of the future of libraries in the context of major societal, political and environmental issues - Poses important questions for the profession and policy development - Fills a major gap in literature (recent discourse and debate on the future of democracy, for example, the library is rarely included)
Author : Ralph Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681176345
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Public Libraries, Institutions and Societies written by Ralph Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Library is regarded in the people's institution. It is local gateway to knowledge that provides basic condition for life learning and facilitates cultural development of the individual and social groups. The public library provides services to all irrespective of age, sex, cast, religion, education, and social studies, generally all users get the material relevant to their needs and requirements in the public library. The advent of information technology from the middle of 20th century has gradually changed the traditional process of information acquisition, communication and storage. The society is transformed with new a paradigm which is regarded as information society or knowledge society. Along with the traditional form of reading material such as books, manuscripts the new forms like microfiche, CDs, e-books, etc. In a society of lifelong learning - whether of a formal or informal nature- public libraries will be nodes connecting the local learning setting with the global resources of information and knowledge. Public libraries must therefore be allowed to play a role of fundamental importance in the development of future systems of lifelong learning. The development of the information and communication technology has already laid the basis for the creation of information networks, giving users even of small local public libraries access to the world wide sources of information. The public libraries also offer guidance and training in information search and quality rating of information sources. Thus, public libraries are necessary if not sufficient prerequisites for a democratic knowledge society. The importance of the idea of the library organization as a social institution became so powerful that it also became a basic tenet of the library field, the basis for what since that time has become one of the field's common assumptions, that the modern library in and of itself, the library as a social organization, is the field's most significant cultural legacy to society. Libraries and other similar type of institutions collect, process, organize and disseminate information and knowledge recorded in document.
Author : Alistair Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317105338
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Libraries of Light written by Alistair Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was symptomatic of the age’s spirit of renewal. In the 1960s, public libraries truly became ‘libraries of light’, and Black further explains how this phrase not only describes the shining new library designs – with their open-plan, decluttered, Scandinavian-inspired designs – but also serves as a metaphor for the public library’s role as a beacon of social egalitarianism and cultural universalism. A sequel to Books, Buildings and Social Engineering (2009), Black's new book takes his fascinating story of the design of British public libraries into the era of architectural modernism.
Author : Alvin Saunders Johnson
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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Public Library -- written by Alvin Saunders Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190248025
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Part of Our Lives written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as public places that promote and maintain community. Whether as a public space, a place for accessing information, or a home for reading material that helps patrons make sense of the world around them, the public library has a rich history of meaning for millions of Americans. From colonial times through the recent technological revolution, libraries have continuously adapted to better serve the needs of their communities. Wiegand demonstrates that, although cultural authorities (including some librarians) have often disparaged reading books considered not "serious," the commonplace reading materials users obtained from public libraries have had a transformative effect for many, including people such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Moyers, Edgwina Danticat, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey. A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions.
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380681
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Main Street Public Library written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has more public libraries than it has McDonald’s restaurants. By any measure, the American public library is a heavily used and ubiquitous institution. Popular thinking identifies the public library as a neutral agency that protects democratic ideals by guarding against censorship as it makes information available to people from all walks of life. Among librarians this idea is known as the “library faith.” But is the American public library as democratic as it appears to be? In Main Street Public Library, eminent library historian Wayne Wiegand studies four emblematic small-town libraries in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the federal Library Service Act of 1956, and shows that these institutions served a much different purpose than is so often perceived. Rather than acting as neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, the libraries of Sauk Centre, Minnesota; Osage, Iowa; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; and Lexington, Michigan, were actually mediating community literary values and providing a public space for the construction of social harmony. These libraries, and the librarians who ran them, were often just as susceptible to the political and social pressures of their time as any other public institution. By analyzing the collections of all four libraries and revealing what was being read and why certain acquisitions were passed over, Wiegand challenges both traditional perceptions and professional rhetoric about the role of libraries in our small-town communities. While the American public library has become essential to its local community, it is for reasons significantly different than those articulated by the “library faith.”
Author : John E. Buschman
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Library as Place written by John E. Buschman and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries, as a component of cultural space, are ubiquitous to almost every society during almost every time period. However, as places of cultural and symbolic and intellectual meaning, they have varied greatly. To capture both aspects, this collection of 14 original papers covers library spaces old and new, real and imagined, large and small, public and private. Contributions range from a consideration of the Garrison library in the British Empire, to the Carnegie library as a social institution, to the imagined library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The result is a fascinating look at the library as a physical, social, and intellectual place within the hearts and minds of its clientele and the public at large.
Author : David W. Davies
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810807389
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Public Libraries as Culture and Social Centers written by David W. Davies and published by Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Hauk Shera
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foundations of the Public Library written by Jesse Hauk Shera and published by Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Public Libraries in the United States of America written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
