The library as place : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Le...
The library as place : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Le...
The library as place : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie ; foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot.
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Publisher
Westport, CT ; London : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
N021.2/16
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 260 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 26 cm.
Contents
Space, place, and libraries : an introduction / Gloria J. Leckie and John Buschman -- Military libraries in the British Empire after Waterloo / Ronald Tetreault -- Libraries in public before the age of public libraries : interpreting the furnishings and design of athenaeums and other "social librari...
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Publisher
Westport, CT ; London : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2007.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"This collection of 14 original papers covers library spaces old and new, real and imagined, large and small, public and private. Contributions range from a consideration of the Garrison library in the British Empire, to the Carnegie library as a social institution, to the imagined library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The result is a look at the li...
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The library as place : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie ; foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N021.2/16
Record Identifier
74VKJkrvMNyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJkrvMNyg
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ISBN
9781591583820 (pbk.)
1591583829 (pbk : alk. paper)
DDC
021.2
MMS ID
991022266809702626
