... of that work, as it asked serious questions of what a public library service should be and railed against the wider culture of dumbing down that has infected popular culture in the UK since the 1980s and the role of the public library in sustaining it. Nevertheless, it is good to see other scholars write...

... Limited 2009 --> Children (age groups) Literature Popular culture Once upon a time the term popular took on connotations of a value judgment in children's reading, as writers like Enid Blyton or G.A. Henty, who were prolific and popular by reason of high sales were contrasted...

...Stuart Hannabuss Patrick   Collier . Modernism on Fleet Street . Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate   2006 . viii+257 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐7546‐5308‐0   £50.00 hardback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> English literature Popular culture...

... Abbot . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Reading Fiction Public libraries Popular culture Genreflecting, a study of popular reading genres and a bibliographic guide to them, first appeared in 1982 with Betty Rosenberg as the author and compiler. For anyone...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Librarianship Professionals Popular culture Librarians the world over do seem particularly obsessed with the image of their profession. This book takes a serious look at the “the fact and fiction of how librarians are perceived”. The book's main...