Black, Alistair Matthew. “The English Public Library As an Agency for Social Stability, C. 1850-1919”. Council for National Academic Awards, 1989.
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Black, Alistair. “Arsenals of Scientific and Technical Information: Public Technical Libraries in Britain During and Immediately After World War I”. Library Trends 55, no. 3 (2007): 474-89.
Black, Alistair. “Every Discipline Needs a History: Information Management and the Early Information Society in Britain”. In Aware and Responsible: Papers of the Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies (SCARLID), edited by W. Boyd Rayward, 29-47. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2004.
Black, Alistair. “False Optimism: Modernity, Class, and the Public Library in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s”. Libraries & Culture 38, no. 3 (2003): 201-13.
Black, Alistair. “Hidden Worlds of the Early Knowledge Economy: Libraries in British Companies before the Middle of the 20th Century”. Journal of Information Science 30, no. 5 (2004): 418-35.
Black, Alistair. “The Librarian As Observer, Ambassador, and Tourist: Visits by Three Mid-Twentieth-Century British Librarians to the United States”. Library and Information History 32 (2016): 146-59.
Black, Alistair. “The Library As Clinic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of British Public Library Attitudes to Social and Physical Disease, Ca. 1850-1950”. Libraries & Culture 40, no. 3 (2005): 416-34.
Black, Alistair. “Libraries of Light: Public Library Design in Britain During the Long 1960s”. In Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII, edited by Melanie A. Kimball and Katherine M. Wisser, 124-52. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2017.
Black, Alistair. Libraries of Light: Public Library Design in Britain During the Long 1960s. London, England: Routledge, 2017.
Black, Alistair. “National Planning for Public Library Service: The Work and Ideas of Lionel McColvin”. Library Trends 52, no. 4 (2004): 902-23.
Black, Alistair. “New Beauties: The Design of British Public Library Buildings in the 1960s”. Library Trends 60 (2011): 71-111.
Black, Alistair. “Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”. Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47, no. 4 (2012): 487-513.
Black, Alistair. The Public Library in Britain, 1914-2000. London, England: British Library, 2000.
Black, Alistair. “Skeleton in the Cupboard: Social Class and the Public Library in Britain through 150 Years”. Library History 16, no. 1 (2000): 3-12.
Black, Alistair. “The Victorian Information Society: Surveillance, Bureaucracy, and Public Librarianship in 19th Century Britain”. Information Society 17, no. 1 (2001): 63-80.
Black, Alistair, and Carolynn Rankin. “The History of Children’s Library Design: Continuities and Discontinuities”. In IFLA Publications, 154:7-38.
Black, Alistair, and Christopher Murphy. “Information, Intelligence, and Trade: The Library and the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the British Board of Trade, 1834-1914”. Library and Information History 28, no. 3 (2012): 186-201.
Black, Alistair, and Keith A. Manley. “Peter Hoare: A Festschrift for His Eightieth Birthday”. Library and Information History 32 (2016): 1-7.
Black, Alistair, and Simon Pepper. “From Civic Place to Digital Space: The Design of Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present”. Library Trends 61 (2012): 440-70.
Black, Alistair. “Information History”. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 40 (2006): 441-73.
Black, Alistair. “Information History and the Information Professional”. Library History 20, no. 1 (2004): 3-6.
Black, Alistair, and Dan Schiller. “Systems of Information: The Long View”. Library Trends 62, no. 3 (2014): 628-62.
Black, Alistair, and Rodney Brunt. “MI5, 1909-1945: An Information Management Perspective”. Journal of Information Science 26, no. 3 (2000): 185-97.
Hoare, Peter, P.S. Morrish, Keith A. Manley, and Alistair Black. “Forty Years of Library History: The Editors’ Testimony”. Library History 23, no. 1 (2007): 3-15.
Black, Alistair, and Charles van den Heuvel, eds. “Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward”. Library Trends.
Black, Alistair, and Henry Gabb. “The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present”. Information & Culture 51, no. 2 (2016): 192-225.
Miehe, Dorothea. “The Paul Hirsch Music Library in the British Library”. In Mäzenatentum für Bibliotheken Philanthropy for Libraries, edited by Peter Vodosek, Alistair Black, and Peter Hoare, 39:37-48. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrossowitz, 2004.
Skelton-Foord, Christopher. “Mäzenatentum für Bibliotheken Philanthropy for Libraries, Wolfenbütteler Schriften Zur Geschichte Des Buchwesens”. In Ethics and Ideology: The Philanthropic Ethos in British Community Libraries, 1780- 1840, edited by Peter Vodosek, Alistair Black, and Peter Hoare, 39:67-88. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrossowitz, 2004.
Black, Alistair, Dave Muddiman, and Helen Plant. The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain before the Computer. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing , 2007.
Black, Alistair, Simon Pepper, and Kaye Bagshaw. Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009.
Black, Alistair, and Oriel Prizeman. “Revisiting the Carnegie Public Library Built Form: The Design and Early History of Three Illinois Carnegie Library Buildings”. Library & Information History 36, no. 2 (2020): 89-115.
Black, Alistair, and Oriel Prizeman. “The Design of the Carnegie Library in Danville, Illinois (1904): Rereading the Reputation of the Carnegie Library Built-Form in America”. Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 5, no. 1 (2021): 24-48.
Black, Alistair. “Libraries for the Many: The Philosophical Roots of the Early Public Library Movement”. Library History 9, no. 1/2 (1991): 23-36.
Black, Alistair. New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914. London, England: Leicester University, 1996.
Black, Alistair, and Dave Muddiman. Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain. Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1997.
Black, Alistair. “Information and Modernity: The History of Information and the Eclipse of Library History”. Library History 14, no. 1 (1998): 39-45.
Black, Alistair, and Rodney Brunt. “Information Management in Business, Libraries and British Military Intelligence: Towards a History of Information Management”. Journal of Documentation 55, no. September (1999): 361-74.
Black, Alistair, and Peter Hoare, eds. The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 3. 1850 - 2000. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006.