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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Library history"”.
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919
… by legislation in 1850 the municipal public library had by the end of the First World War become a common feature of urban life. The research and writing of public library history has been myopic; the subject has received little attention from historians working in broader fields. Inadequate …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
… of Dr. Smith to African American women's and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Under her editorship, Notable Black American Women was a pioneering effort to fill the previously long-existing gap in …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
… of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Under her editorship, Notable Black American Women was a pioneering effort to fill the previously long-existing gap in …
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A sequential exploratory mixed methods study of Carnegie libraries and the library profession, 1900-1910
… public libraries. Contemporary scholarship in library and information science (LIS) that deals with Carnegie's philanthropy tends to place emphasis on generalized historical ideals associated with the construction of public libraries. As a result, it often fails to critically inquire into the …
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Library funding : a study to identify reliable and equitable sources of public library funding in Kenya
… funding options for the Kenya National Library Services (KNLS) with specific reference to user fees for library services. In order to put the study into perspective, an outline of library history in Kenya is presented together with an overview of social, economic, technological, and …
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The Trinity : myth, vision, and form in Dallas's River
The thesis explores the planning history of the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. It examines the dramatic physical changes that have occurred in a particular area of the river adjacent to downtown, referred to as the Trinity Banks District (TBD), between the years 1840 and 2015. The thesis explores …
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The Dublin Library Society and its founding members: associational activity and cultural patriotism in late-eighteenth-century Dublin.
… those from the Established Church. The Dublin Library Society provided a public reference library service without restrictions of confession, connection, elections, or status”with admission based only on ability to pay the initial two-guinea charge (and one thereafter). Using hitherto neglected …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… illustrates and explicates medieval monastic library history, but also shows the way that a hermetic approach to canonical knowledge produces the category of heresy.The firm assertions of the dogmatic hegemonic canon of the church find their “other” in heresy. If the two remain opposed, …
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Intellectual freedom and the politics of reading: libraries as sites of conservative activism, 1990-2010
… into the culture wars crossfire. Pro family library challenges went beyond objections to particular materials in order to target library policies of open access, collection diversity, and patron privacy. Pro family activists also mounted an explicit critique of the American Library …
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Making internationalism conscious: libraries and the transnational propagation of the international mind (1911 – 1951)
… work to re-build the University of Louvain Library, and the American Library Association’s development of the Paris Library School. Analyzing these cases historically through the dual lens of library history and transnational history, this dissertation provides a unique view of the role of …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… their holdings. An important milestone in Irish library history is the passing of the Public Libraries Act in 1855, although it was to be almost four decades before the Cork Public Library opened. This delay, which was not unique to Cork, is fully investigated in this thesis as are the reasons …
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The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
… to establish, organize, and operate a children’s library in China. The first children’s reading rooms were founded in public libraries in the late 1910s, which predated the other elements of youth services librarianship. In response to the publication peak of children’s reading materials since the …
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The Australian museum library - its formation, function and scientific contribution, 1836–1917
This thesis examines how the Australian Museum Library both reflected and affected scientific activity and debate at the Australian Museum, Sydney, and beyond, between 1836 and 1917. The relationship between those practising science in the metropolis and those on the periphery, such as in colonial …
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Voices from the other side of the wall: the case of Romanian libraries of the 1970s and 1980s
… tools. This study provides insight into the history of librarianship and of the public library system in communist Romania. The public libraries’ main objective was to contribute to the education of the population into the new socialist ideology promoted by the party. Consequently, while …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
This dissertation explores the peculiar history of the bookmobile in the United States from the close of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In the process, it insists that a spatial politics of shared information was key to constructing and contesting community in …
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The Public Library as Past Become Space
… related to the understanding of the public library as a place. My critical theoretical approach, grounded in historical research and Benjamin’s theories of modernity, highlights contemporary aspects of the public library and broadens and deepens our understanding of the library’s physical …
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Funktion und Leistung einer Forschungsbibliothek : die Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des Deutschen Instituts für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung im Kontext der Historischen Bildungsforschung
Die kumulative Dissertation umfasst dreizehn Beiträge, die zwischen 1994 und 2006 aus je aktuellen Forschungszusammenhängen entstanden sind und in unterschiedlichen Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken publiziert wurden. Sie widmen sich Funktion und Leistung der Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… concerns, the thesis also provides a unique history of France from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 2007 financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Much of the thesis is concerned with contextualising intellectual debates within a period characterised by the moralisation of discourses, a return …