Libraries in society
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by David Gerard.
Contributors: Gerard, David E.
Publisher: Bingley; K. G. Saur
Published: 1978
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Libraries and society.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 157-163.
Selections of readings originally published 1950-1977 in various sources.
Table of contents: title: Jevons, S. The rationale of free public libraries.; title: Irwin, R. The library service in the welfare state.; title: Egan, M. The library and social structure.; title: Jolley, L. The function of the university library.; title: Harris, R. Some issues in political economy.; title: De Vleeschauwer, H. J. The phenomenology of the contemporary library.; title: Williams, R. The library's relation to the community.; title: Luckham, B. The public library.; title: Wasserman, P. The need for change.; title: Bundy, M. L. Urban information and public libraries.; title: Griffin, B. The paradox of the public library.; title: Dawes, L. Libraries, culture and blacks.; title: Groombridge, B. Open learning and libraries.; title: Abramov, K. I. and Skvortsov, V. V. The library's social role.