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The library as place : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie ; foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot.

Buschman, John. (Added Author). Leckie, Gloria J. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1591583829
  • ISBN: 9781591583820
  • Physical Description: viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Space, place, and libraries : an introduction / Gloria J. Leckie and John Buschman -- Beneficial spaces : the rise of military libraries in the British Empire / Ronald Tetreault -- Libraries in public before the age of public libraries : interpreting the furnishings and design of athenaeums and other "social libraries", 1800-1860 / Adam Arenson -- A grand old sandstone lady : Vancouver's Carnegie Library / Ann Curry -- The fruit and root of the community : the Greensboro Carnegie Negro Library, 1904-1964 / Julia A. Hersberger, Lou Sua, and Adam L. Murray -- Locating the library as place among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer patrons / Paulette Rothbauer -- Behind the program-room door : the creation of parochial and private women's realms in a Canadian public library / Pamela J. MacKenzie ... [et al.] -- Seattle Public Library as place : reconceptualizing space, community, and information / Karen E. Fisher ... [et al.] -- Stimulating space, serendipitous space : library as place in the life of the scholar / Karen Antell and Debra Engel -- Setting the stage for undergraduates' information behaviors : faculty and librarians' perspectives on academic space / Lisa M. Given -- The research library as place : on the essential importance of collections of books shelved in subject-classified arrangements / Thomas Mann -- On the myths of libraries / Bonnie Mak -- Managing pleasure : library architecture and the erotics of reading / Abigail Van Slyck -- Going to hell : placing the library in Buffy the vampire slayer / Adriana Estill.
Subject:
Libraries and community.
Libraries > Social aspects.
Library architecture.

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