...Margot Note Elizabeth   Shepherd . Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England . London : Ashgate Publishing   2009 . 260 pp.   $114.95 (hbk) , ISBN: 978 0 7546 4785 0 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> 1900s Archives Archivists England Public...

...David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act in light of recent announced public library closures in England and the subsequent investigation by the Secretary of State for Culture into proposed closures in Wirral...

...John Walsh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the change literary patronage underwent in England after the introduction of print, and attempt to explain the causes for the shift. Design/methodology/approach Provides a historical review of the period. Findings The practice...

... England Poland Currently, many libraries are dealing with increased demands from ethnic users from Eastern Europe including Poland. The first major wave of Polish immigrants arrived in Great Britain during World War 2 (WW2). Many of them stayed after the war and were joined by other Poles who had...

...David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of the debate in terms of a recent consultation in England on guidance for public libraries in selection of controversial materials. Also discussed is the issue of censorship in terms of how it relates to the practice...

... materials offered via the organisation's intranet. Two local public libraries are within easy reach of the school and each provides computer workstations with Internet facilities. Information literacy Information retrieval Qualitative research User studies Schools England Information...

...Peter Beal; Grace Ioppolo English Manuscript Studies . 2002 : London British Library 1100‐1700 pp. , ISBN: 0712347712   £45 Volume 11 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Manuscripts England History Like previous volumes in the admirable English...

...A.S.G. Edwards Manuscripts England Eight leading scholars present their research on the decorative aspects of a variety of late medieval manuscripts in this volume. The functional role of ornamentation as a navigational aid is taken for granted by the authors; their focus is rather...

.... Peter   Isaac Edited by, Barry   McKay Edited by . The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade . New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press   2001 . xiv + 201 pp. , ISBN: 1 58456 052 5   £25.00 ($39.95) Print Networks series Book trade History England...

... achievements in establishing and developing the British Museum as London’s national library are discussed and the circumstances of his retirement and succession are considered. © MCB UP Limited 2001 History Libraries England Librarians Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797‐1879) dominates library...

.... D.R.   Woolf . Reading History in Early Modern England . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press   2000 . 360 pp. , ISBN: 0 521 78046 2   £45.00 Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series History Books England The branch of learning known...

...Stuart James Catherine   Delano‐Smith , Roger J.P.   Kain . English Maps: A History . London : The British Library   1999 . xiv + 320 pp. , ISBN: 0 7123 4609 0   £25.00 The British Library Studies in Map History, Vol. II England History Maps What’s...

... be on the reading lists of all library schools, not only for its intrinsic fascination as a piece of modern scholarship, but as a document central to our very function and purpose as librarians. Kevin   Sharpe . Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England . London...

...Eric Glasgow The enormous growth in publishing in Victorian England is surveyed from its origins in the eighteenth century to the demise, or survival, of principal publishing houses in the twentieth century. The major publishers ‐ Longman, Murray, Smith Elder, Chapman and Hall, Colburn, Bentley...