The moral instructor, and guide to virtue and happiness : being a compendium of moral science, in four parts ... : with an appendix containing directions for the institution of free public libraries, and reading societies : designed for the use of families, and the highest classes in common schools and academies /

Mode of access: Internet.

Public libraries : who should pay the bills?

Mode of access: Internet.

Public libraries and the Internet : study results, policy issues, and recommendations /

Mode of access: Internet.

Public libraries in America;

Mode of access: Internet.

The Public libraries of Maine.

"Directory of libraries--librarians--hours, statistics."

Act respecting public libraries and art schools. Printed by order of the legislative assembly of Ontario.

Mode of access: Internet.

Check list of collections of personal papers in historical societies, university and public libraries, and other learned institutions in the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

The best modern novels; a classified list of thirty-five hundred of the best modern novels that are in active use in the public libraries of the United States,

"A list of the novels on the 'classified shelves' of the Young men's institute of New Haven, Conn., that have been in active circulation during the past two years."--Foreword.

Free Public Libraries

Mode of access: Internet.

The 1996 national survey of public libraries and the Internet : progress and issues : final report, July 1996 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Five-year report of library services through Major Urban Resource Libraries (MURLs) and metropolitan public libraries serving as national or regional resource centers, fiscal year 1984-fiscal year 1988 /

Item 461-D-5

Statistics of public libraries /

Reprinted from American Library Association. Bulletin, vol. 9, p. 213 and tables facing p. 214.

Proceedings, Meeting of Librarians of Large Public Libraries

Title Varies: 1922 Meeting of Librarians of Public Libraries In Cities of More Than 100,000 Population

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.

Public libraries and the right to the [smart] city

The future of public libraries has been threatened by funding cuts and new digital technologies which have led many people to question their traditional role and purpose. However, freedom of information, ready access to knowledge and information literacy in all its digital and analog guises are more important than ever. Thus, public libraries remain significant spaces and places where people can socially interact and learn. In many countries public libraries are reinventing themselves and part of this process has been the redesign of library services and the design and construction of new library building and facilities that articulate the values, purpose and role of what has been termed 'the next library'. Following discussion of new library developments in London, Birmingham and Worcester in the UK, Aarhus in Denmark and Helsinki in Finland, the article concludes that public libraries are now both social and media spaces as well as being important physical places that can help city dwellers decide what type of urban world they want to see.