This book analyses the dynamics of the emerging networks of individuals, organizations, technologies and publications by which means information was exchanged across and through all kinds of borders and boundaries in this period. It extends the frame within which historical disc…
This book analyses the dynamics of the emerging networks of individuals, organizations, technologies and publications by which means information was exchanged across and through all kinds of borders and boundaries in this period. It extends the frame within which historical disc…
"For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this new …
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The long journey to libraries of light -- 2 Modernisation and modernism: the post-war public library and the revolution in its built-f…
1. The long journey to libraries of light -- 2. Modernisation and modernism : the post-war public library and the revolution in its built form -- 3. Style, siting and space -- 4. Flagship libraries : intersections of style, siting, space and light -- 5. Holborn Central Library :…
The long journey to libraries of light -- Modernisation and modernism : the post-war public library and the revolution in its built form -- Style, siting and space -- Flagship libraries : intersections of style, siting, space and light -- Holborn Central Library : Scandinavia "l…
For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this book,…
For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. 0In this new …
For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this book,…