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Leedham-Green, E. S.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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• Volume I : To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber
• Introduction / Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber
• The physical setting
• 1a. The medieval library (to c. 1450) / Richard Gameson
• 1b. The early modern library (to c. 1640) / Clare Sargent
• Part one : The medieval library
• 2. Celtic Britain and Ireland in the early middle ages / Pádraig P. Ó Néill
• 3. Anglo-Saxon England / David Ganz
• 4. Monastic and cathedral book collections in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries / Teresa Webber
• 5. The libraries of religious houses in the late middle ages / David N. Bell
• 6. College and university book collections and libraries / Roger Lovatt
• 7. Bishops and kings : private book collections in medieval England / Jenny Stratford and Teresa Webber
• 8. The medieval librarian / Richard Sharpe
• 9. Borrowing and reference : access to libraries in the late middle ages / Peter J. Lucas
• Part two : Reformation, dissolution, new learning
• 10. The dispersal of the monastic libraries and the salvaging of the spoils / James P. Carley
• 11. Extending the frontiers : scholar collectors / Julian Roberts
• 12. Matthew Parker's manuscripts : an Elizabethan library and its use / Timothy Graham
• Part three : Tools of the trade
• 13. Universities and colleges / Kristian Jensen
• 14. Major ecclesiastical libraries : from reformation to Civil War / C.B.L. Barr and David Selwyn.

• 15. Clerical and parish libraries / Arnold Hunt
• 16. Schools and schoolmasters (to c. 1550) / Nicholas Orme
• 17. School libraries (c. 1540 to 1640) / William Barker
• 18. Common lawyers and the inns of court / J.H. Baker
• 19. Medical libraries / Peter Murray Jones
• 20. Heralds' libraries / Pamela Selwyn
• Part four Libraries for leisure
• 21. The profession of a gentleman : books for the gentry and the nobility (c. 1560 to 1640) / Pamela Selwyn and David Selwyn
• 22. Libraries of the common sort / Margaret Spufford
• 23. The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580-1640) and the idea of a national collection / Richard Ovenden
• Part five : Organisation and administration
• 24. Library administration (c. 1475 to 1640) / C.Y. Ferdinand
• 25. Libraries and the organisation of knowledge / David Mckitterick.

• Volume II : 1640-1850 / edited by Giles Mandelbrote, Keith Manley
• 1. Introduction : The changing world of libraries -- from cloister to hearth / Giles Mandelbrote and K.A. Manley
• Part one : The expansion of book collections 1640-1750
• 2. Ancients and moderns : cross-currents in early modern intellectual life / Joseph M. Levine
• 3. Libraries, books and learning, from Bacon to the enlightenment / Paul A. Nelles- 4. Opportunities for building collections and libraries / Julian Roberts
• 5. Libraries for school education and personal devotion / Ian Green
• 6. Libraries for the parish : individual donors and charitable societies / W.M. Jacob
• 7. Endowed libraries for towns / Michael Powell
• 8. Libraries in university towns / Charles Benson
• 9. Ecclesiastical libraries : libraries for the higher clergy / Sheila Hingley
• 10. Libraries for antiquaries and heralds / Nigel Ramsay
• 11. Professional collections : libraries for scientists and doctors / Scott Mandelbrote
• 12. Personal owners of books / Giles Mandelbrote
• 13. Library buildings and fittings / John Newman
• 14. Baroque librarianship / P.S. Morrish
• Part two : Library development at a local level
• 15. Libraries for sociability : the advance of the subscription library / James Raven
• 16. Local library provision : 1 Norwich / David Stoker
• 17. Local library provision : 2 Belfast / Wesley McCann
• Part three : Provincial and metropolitan libraries 1750-1850
• 18. Libraries in context : social, cultural and intellectual background / Joanna Innes
• 19. The book trade and libraries / John Feather.

• 20. Ecclesiastical libraries / Joan Williams
• 21. Libraries in the parish / Graham Best
• 22. Books and universities / Peter Freshwater
• 23. Libraries and literacy in popular education / Brian Burch
• 24. Scientific and medical libraries : the rise of the institution / John Symons
• 25. The first century of the British Museum library / P.R. Harris
• 26. The impact of the British Museum library / Marvin Spevack
• 27. Private libraries in the age of bibliomania / Arnold Hunt
• 28. Library architecture and interiors / M.H. Port
• 29. Library management in the pre-professional age / P.S. Morrish
• 30. Libraries for an imperial power / Wallace Kirsop
• 31. Engines of literature : libraries in an era of expansion and transition / K.A. Manley.

• Volume III: 1850-2000 / edited by Alistair Black and Peter Hoare
• Introduction : sources and methodologies for the history of libraries in the modern era
• 1. Libraries and the modern world / Alistair Black and Peter Hoare
• Part one : Enlightening the masses : the public library as concept and reality
• 2. Introduction : The public library in concept and reality / Alistair Black
• 3. The people's university : models of public library history / Alistair Black
• 4. Libraries for leisure time / Robert Snape
• 5. High seriousness : the reference and information role of the public library 1850-2000 / Bob Duckett
• 6. Extending the public library 1850-1930 / Martin Hewitt
• 7. Public library outreach and extension 1930-2000 / Dave Muddiman
• 8. Public library services for children / Debbie Denham
• 9. Public library people 1850-1919 / Paul Sturges
• Part two : The voluntary ethic : libraries of our own
• 10. Introduction : libraries of our own / Alistair Black
• 11. Circulating libraries in the Victorian age and after / Simon Eliot
• 12. The subscription libraries and their members / Geoffrey Forester and Alan Bell
• 13. Radical reading? working-class libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Chris Baggs
• 14. Private libraries and the collecting instinct / David Pearson
• Part three : Libraries for National needs : library provision in the public sphere in the countries of the British Isles
• 15. Introduction : library provision in the countries of the British Isles / Peter Hoare
• 16. The library scene in an English city : Newcastle upon Tyne libraries 1850-2000 / John C. Day.

• 17. Public libraries in Wales since 1862 / Philip Henry Jones
• 18. The National Library of Wales / Lionel Madden
• 19. The Scottish library scene / John C. Crawford
• 20. The National Library of Scotland / Ian McGowan
• 21. The Irish library scene / Catherine Morgan and Pearl Quinn
• 22. The National Library of Ireland / Gerard Long
• Part four : The Nation's treasury : Britain's national library as concept and reality
• 23. Introduction : Britain's national library as concept and reality / Graham Jefcoate
• 24. The British Museum Library 1857-1973 / P.R. Harris
• 25. The British Library and its antecedents / John Hopson
• Part five : The spirit of enquiry : higher education and libraries
• 26. Introduction : higher education and libraries ; 27. The libraries of the ancient universities to the 1960s / Peter Hoare
• 28. The libraries of the University of London to the 1960s / Bernard Naylor
• 29. The Civic universities and their libraries / F.W. Ratcliffe
• 30. Academic libraries and the expansion of higher education since the 1960s / Ian R.M. Mowat
• Part six : The rise of professional society : libraries for specialist areas
• 31. Libraries and information for specialist areas ; 32. The scientist and engineer and their need for information / Jack Meadows
• 33. Information in the service of medicine / Antonia J. Bunch
• 34. Lawyers and their libraries / Guy Holborn
• 35. Spreading the word : religious libraries in the ages of enthusiasm and secularism / Alan Jesson
• 36. Government and parliamentary libraries / Christopher Murphy
• 37. Company libraries / Alistair Black.

• 38. Rare-book libraries and the growth of humanities scholarship / B.C. Bloomfield
• Part seven : The trade and its tools : librarians and libraries in action
• 39. Introduction : librarians and libraries in action / Peter Hoare
• 40. The interpretation of professional development in librarianship since 1850 / Ian Cornelius
• 41. Education for librarianship / Dave Muddiman
• 42. Women and libraries / Julia Taylor McCain
• 43. The feminisation of librarianship: the writings of Margaret Reed / Evelyn Kerslake
• 44. Sharing the load : libraries in co-operation / Antonia J. Bunch
• 45. Organising knowledge : cataloguing, classification and indexing in the modern library / Rodney M. Brunt
• 46. Storehouses of knowledge : the free library movement and the birth of modern library architecture / Simon Pepper
• Part eight : Automation pasts, eletronic futures : the digital revolution
• 47. Introduction : The digital revolution in society and in libraries / Graham Jefcoate- 48. Automating the library process / Eric Hunter
• 49. Informatisation : libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services / Alistair Duff
• 50. Libraries and librarians in the information age / Liz Chapman and Frank Webster.

Publisher's summary

Since the mid-nineteenth century an unprecedented expansion and diversification of library activity has taken place. The Public Libraries Act of 1850 founded a tradition of public provision and service which continues today, and national and academic libraries have grown and multiplied. Libraries have become an industry rather than a localised phenomenon, and librarianship has developed from a scholarly craft to a scientific profession. The essays in this volume present a picture of great diversity, covering public, national, academic, subscription and private libraries. The users of libraries are an important part of their history and are considered here in detail, alongside the development of the library profession and the impact of new information technologies. The place of the library within society and the growth of a professional structure to manage new demands on information are the central concerns of this volume, which celebrates the diversity of the modern library world.
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Publisher's summary

This is the first detailed scholarly history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. It aims to provide a panorama of the great variety of libraries since the medieval period, setting them in their social and cultural contexts and interpreting their role as it has changed over time. Libraries of all kinds are included, from monastic libraries and other manuscript collections to the modern world of electronic information. Special attention is given to the purposes of libraries - in education, for professional use, for religious purposes and of course for leisure and general reading. Large libraries and small are covered, with examples from all over the British Isles of how needs have been met. Each volume includes an extensive bibliography of sources and secondary works.
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Publisher's summary

This volume is the first detailed survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing patterns in the formation of book collections in the earlier medieval period, traces the combined impact of the activities of the mendicant orders and the scholarship of the universities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the adoption of the library room and the growth of private book collections in the fourteenth and fifteenth. The volume then focuses upon the dispersal of the monastic libraries in the mid-sixteenth centuries, the creation of new types of library, and finally, the steps whereby the collections amassed by antiquaries came to form the bases of the national and institutional libraries of Britain and Ireland.
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Publisher's summary

A History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland describes the development of libraries in Great Britain and Ireland over some 1500 years, and their role as a part of the social, intellectual and cultural history. In addition to obvious links with the history of books and literature, the volumes include consideration of education, technology, social philosophy, architecture and the arts, as they have affected libraries. The significant international dimension, which has affected British and Irish libraries from the Middle Ages to the present, receives due attention. Other themes considered in each volume include the housing, storage and maintenance of books and other material; the individuals responsible for their care and those who used them; developments in provision, organization and cataloguing; and the principles and attitudes - of librarians and users - which such developments reflect.
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Subjects

Libraries > Great Britain > History.

Libraries > Ireland > History.

Bibliothèques > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.

Bibliothèques > Irlande > Histoire.

Libraries.

Great Britain.

Ireland.

Bibliothek.

Großbritannien.

Irland.

Genre

History.

Publication date

2006

ISBN

9780521858083 (set)

0521858089

9780521781947 (v. 1 : hardback)

0521781949

9780521792745 (v. 2 : hardback)

0521792746

9780521780971 (v. 3 : harback)

0521780977