Dragan Milovanovic
Ashgate
Hardback
232
1989
In the information society is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ?community? librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a complex and problematic relationship between a highly traditional public service bureaucracy and its users. The resulting uncertainty of purpose they claim explains much of the current ?crisis? of the public library movement.
Ashgate
Hardback
232
1989
In the information society is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ?community? librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a complex and problematic relationship between a highly traditional public service bureaucracy and its users. The resulting uncertainty of purpose they claim explains much of the current ?crisis? of the public library movement.