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Alistair Black

26 works· latest 2024· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-9368-7299

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A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-19141996 · 121 citations
Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain1997 · 107 citations
New Methodologies in Library History: a Manifesto for the ‘New’ Library History1995 · 75 citations
Skeleton in the Cupboard: Social Class and the Public Library in Britain Through 150 Years2000 · 62 citations
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland2014 · 60 citations

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Memory and amnesia in the archival practices of national library and information associations

IFLA Journal·2024·1 author

2citations

Understanding Community Librarianship

Routledge eBooks·2017·1 author·book

2citations

Part of Our Lives: a people’s history of the American public library

Social History·2016·1 author·other

6citations

The Librarian as Observer, Ambassador, and Tourist: Visits by Three Mid-Twentieth-Century British Librarians to the United States

Library & Information History·2016·1 author

2citations

The Early Information Society

Routledge eBooks·2016·1 author·book

11citations

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

·2014·2 authors·book

60citations

From Civic Place to Digital Space: The Design of Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present

Library trends·2012·2 authors·Open access

24citations

Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Information & Culture·2012·1 author

3citations

The History of Children’s Library Design: Continuities and Discontinuities

Saur eBooks·2011·2 authors·chapter

12citations

‘We don’t do public libraries like we used to’: Attitudes to public library buildings in the UK at the start of the 21st century

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science·2011·1 author

20citations

‘A Valuable Handbook of Information’: The Staff Magazine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century as a Means of Information Management

·2011·1 author·chapter

2citations

"Arsenals of scientific and technical information": Public Technical Libraries in Britain during and Immediately after World War I

Library trends·2007·1 author·Open access

4citations

The people's university: models of public library history

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2006·1 author·chapter

8citations

The Past Public Library Observed: User Perceptions and Recollections of the Twentieth‐Century British Public Library Recorded in the Mass‐Observation Archive

The Library Quarterly·2006·1 author

44citations

National planning for public library service: The work and ideas of Lionel McColvin

Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)·2004·1 author·Open access

6citations

False Optimism: Modernity, Class, and the Public Library in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s

Libraries & culture·2003·1 author

12citations

In the public eye

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science·2002·2 authors

39citations

In the public eye: A mass observation of the public library

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science·2002·2 authors

5citations

The scope of the syllabus of information society studies

Education for Information·2001·1 author

1citations

The Victorian Information Society: Surveillance, Bureaucracy, and Public Librarianship in 19th-Century Britain

The Information Society·2001·1 author

31citations

Skeleton in the Cupboard: Social Class and the Public Library in Britain Through 150 Years

Library History·2000·1 author

62citations

A mass observation of the public library

·2000·2 authors·book

6citations

The public library in Britain, 1914-2000

OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique)·1999·1 author

23citations

Understanding Community Librarianship: The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

·1997·1 author

107citations

A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914

·1996·1 author·book

121citations

New Methodologies in Library History: a Manifesto for the ‘New’ Library History

Library History·1995·1 author

75citations