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Early Public Libraries And Colonial Citizenship In The British Southern Hemisphere
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Author : Lara Atkin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-21
Early Public Libraries And Colonial Citizenship In The British Southern Hemisphere written by Lara Atkin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
Early Public Libraries
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Author : Thomas Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Release Date : 1966
Early Public Libraries written by Thomas Kelly and has been published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The New York Public Library
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Author : Phyllis Dain
language : en
Publisher: New York Public Library
Release Date : 1972
The New York Public Library written by Phyllis Dain and has been published by New York Public Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Social Science categories.
The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections that rank with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, as well as a network of community libraries with vast popular neighborhood collections -- and all of its resources are open to all visitors, a degree of access perhaps unique in the world. How it came to be, how it grew and developed its unique character, and how it came to be a refuge and essential resource for generations of New Yorkers and scholars from around the world are some of the pieces of the fascinating story told here.
Books Buildings And Social Engineering
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Author : Alistair Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Books Buildings And Social Engineering written by Alistair Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Reading Publics
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Author : Tom Glynn
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-01-22
Reading Publics written by Tom Glynn and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with History categories.
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.
The New Public Library
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Author : R. Thomas Hille
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-07
The New Public Library written by R. Thomas Hille and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Architecture categories.
The New Public Library is an in-depth design study of an exemplary collection of recent public libraries, and the historical precedents that have informed and inspired their development. An introductory overview presents seven critical themes that characterize public library design, past and present, highlighting the expressive architectural potential of this unique and important building type. A survey of over 40 historically significant libraries traces the development of the building type over time, with a primary focus on precedents from the US and northern Europe, where the modern public library originated, and its design has been most comprehensively developed. A selection of nearly 50 contemporary projects from the past 30 years focuses on the most current developments in public library design, with a diverse and varied collection of work by over 35 regional, national, and international design firms. Highly visual in its presentation, the study includes 885 color photographs and illustrations, and 195 scale drawings.
The Public Library In American Life
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Author : Ernestine Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06
The Public Library In American Life written by Ernestine Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with categories.
Early History Of Libraries In Paterson
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Author : Paterson Free Public Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Early History Of Libraries In Paterson written by Paterson Free Public Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Libraries categories.
Before The Public Library
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Author : Mark Towsey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Before The Public Library written by Mark Towsey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with History categories.
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.
America S First Libraries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
America S First Libraries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Public libraries categories.