...Alan Boughey; Mike Cooper Purpose The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach The published literature from government and professional...

..., for the way in which services are promoted, evaluated and delivered. Design/methodology/approach A range of literature (1919‐2006) is synthesized to provide a perspective on archive service development, theories of social capital and public value, and government policy, as a means of identifying...