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.
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Black, Alistair. “Information History and the Information Professional”. Library History 20, no. 1 (2004): 3-6.
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. Libraries of Light: Public Library Design in Britain During the Long 1960s. London, England: Routledge, 2017.
Black, Alistair, and Dan Schiller. “Systems of Information: The Long View”. Library Trends 62, no. 3 (2014): 628-62.
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 Rodney Brunt. “MI5, 1909-1945: An Information Management Perspective”. Journal of Information Science 26, no. 3 (2000): 185-97.
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.
Black, Alistair. “National Planning for Public Library Service: The Work and Ideas of Lionel McColvin”. Library Trends 52, no. 4 (2004): 902-23.
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. “New Beauties: The Design of British Public Library Buildings in the 1960s”. Library Trends 60 (2011): 71-111.
Black, Alistair, and Charles van den Heuvel, eds. “Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward”. Library Trends.
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, 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.
Black, Alistair. The Public Library in Britain, 1914-2000. London, England: British Library, 2000.
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. “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, Dave Muddiman, and Helen Plant. The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain before the Computer. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing , 2007.
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, 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. “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, and Carolynn Rankin. “The History of Children’s Library Design: Continuities and Discontinuities”. In IFLA Publications, 154:7-38.
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, 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 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. “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, 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. “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, and Keith A. Manley. “Peter Hoare: A Festschrift for His Eightieth Birthday”. Library and Information History 32 (2016): 1-7.
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. “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, 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. New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914. London, England: Leicester University, 1996.
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. “Information History”. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 40 (2006): 441-73.
Black, Alistair, and Dave Muddiman. Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain. Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1997.