Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Libraries and the modern world Alistair Black and Peter Hoare; Part I. Enlightening the Masses: 2. Introduction Alistair Black; 3. The people's university: models of public library history Alistair Black; 4. Libraries for leisure time Robert Snape; 5. High seriousness: the reference and information role of the public library 1850–2000 Bob Duckett; 6. Extending the public library 1850–1930 Martin Hewitt; 7. Public library outreach and extension 1930–2000 Dave Muddiman; 8. Public library services for children Debbie Denham; 9. Public library people 1850–1919 Paul Sturges; Part II. The Voluntary Ethic: 10. Introduction Alistair Black; 11. Circulating libraries in the Victorian age and after Simon Eliot; 12. The subscription libraries and their members Geoffrey Forster and Alan Bell; 13. Radical reading? Working class libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chris Baggs; 14. Private libraries and the collecting instinct David Pearson; Part III. Libraries for National Needs: 15. Introduction Peter Hoare; 16. The library scene in an English city: Newcastle upon Tyne libraries 1850–2000 John Day; 17. Public libraries in Wales since 1862 Philip Henry Jones; 18. The National Library of Wales Lionel Madden; 19. The Scottish library scene John C. Crawford; 20. The National Library of Scotland Ian McGowan; 21. The Irish library scene Catherine Moran and Pearl Quinn; 22. The National Library of Ireland Gerard Long; Part IV. The Nation's Treasury: 23. Introduction Graham Jefcoate; 24. The British Museum Library 1857–1973 P. R. Harris; 25. The British Library and its antecedents John Hopson; Part V. The Spirit of Enquiry: 26. Introduction Peter Hoare; 27. The libraries of the ancient universities to the 1960s Peter Hoare; 28. The libraries of the University of London to the 1960s Bernard Naylor; 29. The civic universities and their libraries F. W. Ratcliffe; 30. Academic libraries and the expansion of higher education since the 1960s Ian Mowat; Part VI. The Rise of Professional Society: 31. Libraries and information for specialist areas Jack Meadows; 32. The scientist and engineer and their need for information Jack Meadows; 33. Information in the service of medicine Antonia J. Bunch; 34. Lawyers and their libraries Guy Holborn; 35. Spreading the word: religious libraries in the ages of enthusiasm and secularism (1850–2000) Alan Jesson; 36. Government and Parliamentary libraries Chris Murphy; 37. Company libraries Alistair Black; 38. Rare-book libraries and the growth of humanities scholarship B. C. Bloomfield; Part VII. The Trade and its Tools: 39. Introduction Peter Hoare; 40. The interpretation of professional development in librarianship since 1850 Ian Cornelius; 41. Education for librarianship Dave Muddiman; 42. Women and libraries Julia Taylor; 43. The feminisation of librarianship: the writings of Margaret Reed Evelyn Kerslake; 44. Sharing the load: libraries in co-operation Antonia J. Bunch; 45. Organising knowledge: cataloguing, classification and indexing in the modern library Rodney M. Brunt; 46. Storehouses of knowledge: the free library movement and the birth of modern library architecture Simon Pepper; Part VIII. Automation Pasts, Electronic Futures: 47. Introduction: The digital revolution in society and in libraries Graham Jefcoate; 48. Automating the library process Eric Hunter; 49. Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information systems Alistair Duff; 50. Libraries and librarians in the information age Liz Chapman and Frank Webster; Bibliography.