1st Edition

Understanding Community Librarianship The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

By Alistair Black, David Muddiman Copyright 1997
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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Biography

Alistair Black is a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. David Muddiman is a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.