TY - SER
AU - Alistair Black
AU - Simon Pepper
AU - Kaye Bagshaw
CY - Farnham, England
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Introduction 
The public library and society, 1850-1939: periodisation, social control, and social engineering 
Pioneer public library buildings, 1850-1883 
Public library buildings in the age of serial philanthropy, 1883-1914 
Modernism and public library buildings between the wars 
Readers help themselves: the open access revolution 
Children's libraries 
The library as "monument" and "machine" 
New for old? 
Conclusion 
Appendix: gazetteer of early public library buildings in Britain 1850-1940
PB - Ashgate
PP - Farnham, England
PY - 2009
SN - 9780754672074
EP - 465 pp.
TI - Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present
ER -