Bøker av Alistair Black

This important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. It includes a study of what is happening to historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.

Offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the modern information society. This work is intended for students, researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field, and for sociologists and historians interested in the information society.

This work reconsiders the role of community librarianship in the late-1990s and beyond. During an era when the Department of National Heritage highlights the public library as a "major community facility", the text stresses the importance of the role of the library.

This important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. It includes a study of what is happening to historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.