Understanding Community Librarianship
The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain
In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of 'community' librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a complex and problematic relationship between a highly traditional public service bureaucracy and its users. The resulting uncertainty of purpose, they claim, explains much of the current 'crisis' of the public library movement. Drawing on recent social…
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Weitere Autoren: Muddiman, David
- ISBN: 978-1-351-87704-6
- EAN: 9781351877046
- Produktnummer: 24435871
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 30'472 KB
Über den Autor
Alistair Black is a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. David Muddiman is a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
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