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The library as place : history, community, and culture
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The library as place : history, community, and culture

Author: John Buschman; Gloria J Leckie
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Buschman; Gloria J Leckie
ISBN: 1591583829 9781591583820
OCLC Number: 74492028
Description: viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Space, place, and libraries : an introduction / Gloria J. Leckie and John Buschman -- Beneficial spaces : the rise of military libraries in the British Empire / Ronald Tetreault -- Libraries in public before the age of public libraries : interpreting the furnishings and design of athenaeums and other "social libraries", 1800-1860 / Adam Arenson -- A grand old sandstone lady : Vancouver's Carnegie Library / Ann Curry -- The fruit and root of the community : the Greensboro Carnegie Negro Library, 1904-1964 / Julia A. Hersberger, Lou Sua, and Adam L. Murray -- Locating the library as place among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer patrons / Paulette Rothbauer -- Behind the program-room door : the creation of parochial and private women's realms in a Canadian public library / Pamela J. MacKenzie ... [et al.] -- Seattle Public Library as place : reconceptualizing space, community, and information / Karen E. Fisher ... [et al.] -- Stimulating space, serendipitous space : library as place in the life of the scholar / Karen Antell and Debra Engel -- Setting the stage for undergraduates' information behaviors : faculty and librarians' perspectives on academic space / Lisa M. Given -- The research library as place : on the essential importance of collections of books shelved in subject-classified arrangements / Thomas Mann -- On the myths of libraries / Bonnie Mak -- Managing pleasure : library architecture and the erotics of reading / Abigail Van Slyck -- Going to hell : placing the library in Buffy the vampire slayer / Adriana Estill.
Responsibility: edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie ; foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot.
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