The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 3, 1850-2000 / edited by Alistair Black and Peter Hoare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, Alistair, editor.

Hoare, Peter, 1936- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Libraries.

Libraries--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Libraries--Ireland--History--19th century.

Libraries--Ireland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 737 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain & Ireland

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Since the mid-nineteenth century an unprecedented expansion and diversification of library activity has taken place. The Public Libraries Act of 1850 founded a tradition of public provision and service which continues today, and national and academic libraries have grown and multiplied. Libraries have become an industry rather than a localised phenomenon, and librarianship has developed from a scholarly craft to a scientific profession. The essays in this volume present a picture of great diversity, covering public, national, academic, subscription and private libraries. The users of libraries are an important part of their history and are considered here in detail, alongside the development of the library profession and the impact of new information technologies. The place of the library within society and the growth of a professional structure to manage new demands on information are the central concerns of this volume, which celebrates the diversity of the modern library world.

Contents:

Volume III: 1850-2000 / edited by Alistair Black and Peter Hoare

Introduction : sources and methodologies for the history of libraries in the modern era

1. Libraries and the modern world / Alistair Black and Peter Hoare

Part one : Enlightening the masses : the public library as concept and reality

2. Introduction : The public library in concept and reality / Alistair Black

3. The people's university : models of public library history / Alistair Black

4. Libraries for leisure time / Robert Snape

5. High seriousness : the reference and information role of the public library 1850-2000 / Bob Duckett

6. Extending the public library 1850-1930 / Martin Hewitt

7. Public library outreach and extension 1930-2000 / Dave Muddiman

8. Public library services for children / Debbie Denham

9. Public library people 1850-1919 / Paul Sturges

Part two : The voluntary ethic : libraries of our own

10. Introduction : libraries of our own / Alistair Black

11. Circulating libraries in the Victorian age and after / Simon Eliot

12. The subscription libraries and their members / Geoffrey Forester and Alan Bell

13. Radical reading? working-class libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Chris Baggs

14. Private libraries and the collecting instinct / David Pearson

Part three : Libraries for National needs : library provision in the public sphere in the countries of the British Isles

15. Introduction : library provision in the countries of the British Isles / Peter Hoare

16. The library scene in an English city : Newcastle upon Tyne libraries 1850-2000 / John C. Day.

17. Public libraries in Wales since 1862 / Philip Henry Jones

18. The National Library of Wales / Lionel Madden

19. The Scottish library scene / John C. Crawford

20. The National Library of Scotland / Ian McGowan

21. The Irish library scene / Catherine Morgan and Pearl Quinn

22. The National Library of Ireland / Gerard Long

Part four : The Nation's treasury : Britain's national library as concept and reality

23. Introduction : Britain's national library as concept and reality / Graham Jefcoate

24. The British Museum Library 1857-1973 / P.R. Harris

25. The British Library and its antecedents / John Hopson

Part five : The spirit of enquiry : higher education and libraries

26. Introduction : higher education and libraries ; 27. The libraries of the ancient universities to the 1960s / Peter Hoare

28. The libraries of the University of London to the 1960s / Bernard Naylor

29. The Civic universities and their libraries / F.W. Ratcliffe

30. Academic libraries and the expansion of higher education since the 1960s / Ian R.M. Mowat

Part six : The rise of professional society : libraries for specialist areas

31. Libraries and information for specialist areas ; 32. The scientist and engineer and their need for information / Jack Meadows

33. Information in the service of medicine / Antonia J. Bunch

34. Lawyers and their libraries / Guy Holborn

35. Spreading the word : religious libraries in the ages of enthusiasm and secularism / Alan Jesson

36. Government and parliamentary libraries / Christopher Murphy

37. Company libraries / Alistair Black.

38. Rare-book libraries and the growth of humanities scholarship / B.C. Bloomfield

Part seven : The trade and its tools : librarians and libraries in action

39. Introduction : librarians and libraries in action / Peter Hoare

40. The interpretation of professional development in librarianship since 1850 / Ian Cornelius

41. Education for librarianship / Dave Muddiman

42. Women and libraries / Julia Taylor McCain

43. The feminisation of librarianship: the writings of Margaret Reed / Evelyn Kerslake

44. Sharing the load : libraries in co-operation / Antonia J. Bunch

45. Organising knowledge : cataloguing, classification and indexing in the modern library / Rodney M. Brunt

46. Storehouses of knowledge : the free library movement and the birth of modern library architecture / Simon Pepper

Part eight : Automation pasts, eletronic futures : the digital revolution

47. Introduction : The digital revolution in society and in libraries / Graham Jefcoate- 48. Automating the library process / Eric Hunter

49. Informatisation : libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services / Alistair Duff

50. Libraries and librarians in the information age / Liz Chapman and Frank Webster.

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9781139055321 (ebook)

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