Volume III: 1850-2000

Alistair Black
Leeds Metropolitan University

Peter Hoare
University of Nottingham

Contents and contributors:

• 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.