The Library as Place - History, Community, and Culture

List of contents

Foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot
Introduction
1. Space, Place, and Libraries: An Introduction Gloria J. Leckie and John E. Buschman
Section I: The Library's Place in the Past
2. Beneficial Spaces: The Rise of Military Libraries in the British Empire Ronald Tetreault
3. Libraries in Public before the Age of Public Libraries: Interpreting the Furnishings and Design of Athenaeums and Other "Social Libraries," 1800-1860 Adam Arenson
4. A Grand Old Sandstone Lady: Vancouver's Carnegie Library Ann Curry
Section II: Libraries as Places of Community
5. The Fruit and Root of the Community: The Greensboro Carnegie Negro Library, 1904-1964 Julia A. Hersberger, Lou Sua, and Adam L. Murray
6. Locating the Library as Place among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Patrons Paulette Rothbauer
7. Behind the Program-Room Door: The Creation of Parochial and Private Women's Realms in a Canadian Public Library Pamela J. McKenzie, Elena M. Prigoda, Kirsten Clement, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie
8. Seattle Public Library as Place: Reconceptualizing Space, Community, and Information at the Central Library Karen E. Fisher, Matthew L. Saxton, Phillip M. Edwards, and Jens-Erik Mai
Section III: Research Libraries as Places of Learning and Scholarship
9. Stimulating Space, Serendipitous Space: Library as Place in the Life of the Scholar Karen Antell and Debra Engel
10. Setting the Stage for Undergraduates' Information Behaviors: Faculty and Librarians' Perspectives on Academic Space Lisa M. Given
11. The Research Library as Place: On the Essential Importance of Collections of Books Shelved in Subject-Classified Arrangements Thomas Mann
Section IV: Libraries, Place, and Culture
12. On the Myths of Libraries Bonnie Mak
13. Managing Pleasure: Library Architecture and the Erotics of Reading Abigail Van Slyck
14. Going to Hell: Placing the Library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Adriana Estill
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

About the author

John E. Buschman holds a B.S. in history and sociology and an M.L.S. - both from Ball State University, and an M.A. in American Studies from Saint Joseph's University. He has published two books: Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Libraries in the Age of the New Public Philosophy ( Libraries Unlimited 2003) and Critical Approaches to Information Technology in Librarianship: Foundations and Applications (Greenwood 1993). He is co-editor of the journal Progressive Librarian and on the editorial board of Library Philosophy and Practice.

Gloria J. Leckie has an MLIS as well as an MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include information-seeking behavior, the work of scholars and professionals, academic librarianship, information literacy and libraries as public space. Gloria is currently on the Board of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, as well as on the Editorial Boards of Library Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science.

Product details

• Assisted by: John E. Buschman (Editor), Buschman John E. (Editor), Gloria J. Leckie (Editor), Leckie Gloria J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2006
• EAN: 9781591583820
• ISBN: 978-1-59158-382-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library & information services, Library and information services