Libraries in a World of Cultural Change
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1995
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Author:
Liz Greenhalgh Author: Ken Worpole Author: Charles Landry |
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182 pp.
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UCL Press
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London, England
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| ISBN |
9781857284683
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| Annotation |
Study of library situation in Britain.
Contents:
Introduction
Key concepts
The end of enlightenment
The changing role of public institutions
The modern library network
Political invisibility
What makes libraries special?
The era of light and glass
Libraries and urban vitality
The invisible web: the public library and social policy
Education and life-long learning
Information and the right to know
Other worlds: libraries, fiction and popular reading
Past, present and future
The modern state and new meanings of the public
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