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Author : Ralph W. Conant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087678409
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10734720
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11388916
Author : Michael Dudley
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838996133
From the economic renewal potential of library development projects, to the provision of public space in a privatizing world, from services for the homeless to crisis management during urban disasters, Public Libraries and Resilient Cities explores the vital role that public libraries can play in the promotion of ecologically, economically, and...
Author : Julia Nevárez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030579646
This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping neglected areas in cities. Broadly understood the book seeks to comprehend contemporary library design, urban development and the revitalization of specific urban areas. Important and world famous architects – star-architects – have designed signature architecture in the contemporary libraries selected for this volume. The examples to be showcased in the book include the main Seattle Public Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, New York Public Library, Spain Library Medellin, Colombia, Halifax Central Library Nova Scotia, Canada and Library of Alexandria in Egypt to offer examples of what constitute the approach to libraries and urban development in many cities around the world nowadays. Data in the form of interviews to library directors, librarians and users, tours of libraries, visual documentation and archival research have been collected for most public libraries included as case studies for the book. The impulse to archive has been framed and understood in the literature as a modern desire to control fleeting reality. Libraries as such respond to this desire by collecting, storing and circulating resources (books and other kinds of media). But more recently there has been an emphasis on the public character of library spaces in which people gather not only to obtain information and read by themselves but also to experience the very urban quality of proximity to others in more informal and less structured environments as public space. Community events characterize the programming of all the libraries included in the book. The design of these new libraries fit into urban development initiatives where libraries – like other iconic cultural spaces of cities – become central components to market cities for the consumption of culture. Libraries become sites to be visited and explored by tourists while providing services for residents. They are also machines to accelerate urban development especially in areas previously neglected by development.
Author : Lorne D. Bruce
Publisher : Libraries Today
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780986666629
George H. Locke, chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library between 1908 and 1937, was Canada’s foremost library administrator in the first part of the twentieth century. During this period, free public libraries and librarianship in Ontario expanded rapidly due to the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, improvements in library education, and the influence of American library services. Locke was closely associated with all these trends; however, his outlook was primarily guided by his Methodist upbringing, the Anglo-Canadian academic tradition of British Idealism, and his association with John Dewey’s contribution to American progressive education. These religious and intellectual strands encouraged personal action to improve social conditions. As director of Toronto’s libraries, he brought his ambitious ideas to bear in many ways: the building of neighbourhood branches, library service for children, formal education for librarians, suitable reading for immigrants and young adults, and the idea of the public library as a municipal partner in the self-education of adult Canadians. By 1930, Toronto’s public library system was recognized as one of the best in North America and George Locke’s reputation as a visionary leader had vaulted him to the Presidency of the American Library Association. Although he had created a large organization that might have succumbed to bureaucratic practices and formalized centralization, Locke resisted this development. He remained faithful to his moral, intellectual, and humanistic values acquired during his early schooling and university career. For Locke, libraries and librarians were less about organization and formal duties. Both needed to be faithful to the main principle of serving the public interest by delivering knowledge and by guiding individual self-development through experiential learning and transcendent ideals.
Author : Ralph W. Conant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:1025968493
Author : Jessie Mifflen,Newfoundland Public Libraries Board
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Dalhousie University, University Libraries [and] School of Library Service
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Library surveys
ISBN : UIUC:30112018673019
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042505468
Author : Tom Glynn
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823262656
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130643105
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190248024
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 : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOMDLP:aey9840:0001.001
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UFL:31262071226400
