...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...

... be contacted at: b.a.sen@shefield.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Public libraries Information services Immigrants Ethnic minorities England Poland Currently, many libraries are dealing with increased demands from ethnic users from Eastern Europe including Poland...

...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...

..., they felt, might otherwise have been helpful to them. Information literacy Information retrieval Qualitative research User studies Schools England Information‐seeking failure, and the related matter of the problems encountered by young people when they are looking for information...

... Studies . 2002 : London British Library 1100‐1700 pp. , ISBN: 0712347712   £45 Volume 11 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Manuscripts England History Highlights include Peter Beal's investigation of an earlier unrecorded variant copy of Sidney's Letter to Queen...

...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...

... History England This fifth volume of the Print Networks series has its roots in the research of a group of librarians, bibliographers, and booksellers, who were keen to uncover “the history of the book trade in the North”. They believed that the historical centres of printing and publishing...

... the extraordinary record of his career in the public service: the more remarkable and noteworthy because he arrived in England in the 1820s as a political refugee, escaping from the tyrannies of his native Italy. England, therefore, in his case, gained immeasurably from its traditional hospitality, towards...

.... 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...

... the state of play in a society at a given time, and no period was more critical to the birth of the modern world than the early seventeenth century in England. Sir William Drake’s diary in 60 volumes from the 1620s to the 1660s is an unusually rich collection of notes on reading, a massive testament...

...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...