Annual report of the trustees of the city library.

Issued also as a Boston city document.

Library service.

Title from caption.

Wisconsin recertification manual for public librarians /

WI docs. no.: Ed.3/2:1119

Academic and special library service record.

Mode of access: Internet.

Periodicals in the Central library as currently received in the Periodical reading room and kept bound on the shelves of the Lower hall and Bates hall.

Caption title.

Memorials of the old Chicago library, formerly Young men's association, and of the advent of the new.

Mode of access: Internet.

A library plan for the whole city; proposed system of regional and auxiliary branches.

Mode of access: Internet.

Classified list of books added to the circulating department of the ... library. Jan. 1, 1896 - July 1, 1900.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bulletin of the Vermont Library Commission.

Title from caption.

Statistics of library service in Illinois.

Includes directory information.

Education pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Annual report of ... the free public museums

"Reprint of the general report and of the Museums' portion only of the report of the committee of the Free Public Library, Museums, and Walker Art Gallery"

Branch Library News

Supersedes the Library's Monthly List of Additions

Annual Report of the Free Library

Mode of access: Internet.

Public libraries, citizens and the post democracy

This essay explores the relationship between the development of public libraries in the context of an increasingly market-dominated economy and marketised society. It argues that although neo-liberalism as a policy goal and practice has taken different forms over time, there are common themes in terms of its emphasis on market values, privatisation, and the support of measures that reduce the role of public funding and the state in the provision of public services. This has led some commentators to express concerns that the meaning and practice of citizenship and democracy is being transformed, managed or otherwise diminished. These concerns are compounded by changes effected by new digital technology. Imbricated with this issue are debates surrounding the future of the public library, and attempts by librarians and others to reinvent and reimagine its purpose. With reference to some innovative initiatives in the USA and Scandinavia, it is suggested that public libraries, through their service and spatial rearticulation, can conceivably help strengthen and revitalise public democracy and the public sphere.