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Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

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Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present

Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

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Books, Buildings and Social Engineering book

Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present
ByAlistair Black, Simon Pepper, Kaye Bagshaw
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 13 April 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569680
Pages 486
eBook ISBN 9781315569680
Subjects Area Studies, Arts, Built Environment, Reference & Information Science
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Black, A., Pepper, S., & Bagshaw, K. (2009). Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569680

ABSTRACT

Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|23 pages

Introduction

part one|46 pages

Contexts

chapter 2|44 pages

The Public Library and Society, 1850–1939: Periodisation, Social Control and Social Engineering

part two|137 pages

Periods of Public Library Design

chapter 3|41 pages

Pioneer Public Library Buildings, 1850–83

chapter 4|47 pages

Public Library Buildings in the Age of Serial Philanthropy, 1883–1914

chapter 5|45 pages

Modernism and the Public Library between the Wars

part three|96 pages

Thematic Studies

chapter 6|30 pages

Readers Help Themselves: The Open Access Revolution

chapter 7|28 pages

Children’s Libraries

chapter 8|36 pages

The Library as Monument and Machine

part four|38 pages

The Past in the Present

chapter 9|36 pages

New for Old?

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

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