Guide to Allegan Public Library

Description based on first issue; title from cover.

Bulletin of the Indianapolis Public Library.

Description based on first issue; title from caption.

The free public library. Its uses and value.

Mode of access: Internet.

Public library usage in Illinois /

"Performed ... under contract with the Illinois State Library."

A survey of public library service in Oregon : report /

Submitted by the Board to the Honorable Charles H. Martin, Governor of Oregon.

Catalogue of the public library, Winchester, Mass. 1892 /

The collection of the Winchester Public Library listed by title, author and subject. Also includes library policies.

Minnesota libraries.

Caption title.

The use of and attitudes toward libraries in New Jersey : study /

v. 1. Summary and analysis.--v. 2. Detailed tables.

Corning Public Library (first proposal), Corning, New York, 1969 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch of Building as a Bridge], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, representing the beginning of polygonal thought in Gunnar Birkerts' work, 12 x 19 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Corning Public Library (first proposal), Corning, New York, 1969 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch of Building as a Bridge], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 11 1/2 x 12 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Corning Public Library (first proposal), Corning, New York, 1969 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch of Building as a Bridge], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 12 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Corning Public Library (first proposal), Corning, New York, 1969 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches of Building as a Bridge], untitled. Ink sketches on two sheets of tracing paper, 12 x 27 1/2 & 12 x 33 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Baldwin Public Library Addition, Birmingham, Michigan, 1980-1983

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on steno pad paper, 6x9 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Baldwin Public Library Addition, Birmingham, Michigan, 1980-1983

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on steno pad paper, 6x9 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

The future of the public library:reimagining the moral economy of the 'people's university'

New media technologies, the digitisation of information, learning archives and heritage resources are changing the nature of the public library and museums services across the globe, and, in so doing, changing the way present and future users of these services interact with these institutions in real and virtual spaces. New digital technologies are rewriting the nature of participation, learning and engagement with the public library, and fashioning a new paradigm where virtual and physical spaces and educative and temporal environments operate symbiotically. It is with such a creatively disruptive paradigm that the £193 million Library of Birmingham project in the United Kingdom is being developed. New and old media forms and platforms are helping to fashion new public places and spaces that reaffirm the importance of public libraries as conceived in the nineteenth century. As people’s universities, the public library service offers a web of connective learning opportunities and affordances. This article considers the importance of community libraries as sites of intercultural understanding and practical social democracy. Their significance is reaffirmed through the initial findings in the first of a series of community interventions forming part of a long-term project, ‘Connecting Spaces and Places’, funded by the Royal Society of Arts.