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Understanding Community Librarianship

The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

By: Alistair Black,David Muddiman

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Understanding Community Librarianship

The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

By: Alistair Black,David Muddiman

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 science theory and empirical work in the field, this book offers a new and critical perspective on the current public library debate. It is essential reading for librarians, students of information and library science and all who have a stake in the future of the public library. As a case study of community, public service and the local state it should also be of value to those with an interest in community development, cultural policy and local government.

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Routledge

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1351877046

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Tales of A Self-Funded Transportee

By: Alistair Brooks

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Tales of A Self-Funded Transportee

By: Alistair Brooks

Here is a set of tales that are as refreshing as they are revealing. They begin in an ancient, blizzard-torn farmhouse in England's West Country at the height of the Second World War, and they end 60 years later beside an Aboriginal campfire in the Northern Territory of Australia. These 22 tales take us on an intimate journey through the life of an ordinary individual. Yet the talented style of their telling, with their numerous connecting threads of pathos, serendipity, music, adventure, religious curiosity, comedy, horses and high drama, draws the reader onwards inexorably and irrisistably. In this, his first book, Alistair Brooks provides us with an absorbing and notable autobiographical achievement. For his is a broad and colourful canvas portraying his very personal voyage of self-discovery, and the influences and opportunities that have wrought the many changes in his life. The tales leave one with the feeling his life has been everything but ordinary, and that he has enjoyed his living of it immensely. A rare claim these days. Compelling reading!

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418

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Trafford Publishing

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1412043697

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9781412043694

The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie

By: Alistair McNaught

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The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie

By: Alistair McNaught

Lonely biographer Ian Alexander MacDuffy tries to uncover every detail of the short but colourful life of the charismatic Glasgow playwright Campbell McCluskie in search of some universal meaning behind the coincidence of McCluskie's murder with the exact moment that MacDuffy's mother died giving birth to him.

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1906900558

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Understanding Community Librarianship

Understanding Community Librarianship

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The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie

The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie

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