Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alistair black

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  • UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY LIBRARIANSHIP
    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 pr...

    $1,340.00

  • BOOKS, BUILDINGS AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING
    ALISTAIR BLACK / SIMON PEPPER / KAYE BAGSHAW
    Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many co...

    $1,120.00

  • LIBRARIES OF LIGHT
    ALISTAIR BLACK
    For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was sympt...

    $1,240.00

  • THE EARLY INFORMATION SOCIETY
    ALISTAIR BLACK / DAVE MUDDIMAN
    Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millennia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination and preservation of information. In `The Early Information Society', the author...

    $1,480.00