Alistair Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 4011377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9368-7299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Public School Librarianship
"American Public School Librarianship: A History, by Wayne A. Wiegand." Library & Information History, 38(2), pp. 167–168
Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public
"Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era through World War II, by Bernadette Lear." Library & Information History, 38(1), pp. 77–78
Revisiting the Carnegie Public Library built form
Despite the challenges involved in re-cycling older library buildings, it is important not to underestimate the value of extant Carnegie libraries, which in many places are among the most celebrated and cherished structures in the community. Any tendency to underestimate the possibilities for extant Carnegie library buildings can be reduced by revisiting their original designs and challenging popular impressions that are based on unwarranted retr…
The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present
Corporate libraries of the kind we would recognize today began to appear around the turn of the twentieth century. They were a response to a rapidly changing corporate and commercial environment, acting as adjuncts to both the rise of systematic industrial research and the office management revolution that accompanied the implementation of scientific management. A survey of American corporate libraries in 1916 by the British manufacturer Rowntree…
Part of Our Lives
Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing
Staff magazines in British public libraries emerged in the early twentieth century. Unlike staff magazines in private enterprises, which predate them by two decades, library staff magazines were more truly the product of employees, inaugurated and operated as they often were by staff associations. This study is based on an analysis of staff magazines in three public library systems in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century: Croydon, S…
Knowledge management and diplomacy
In October 2009 the BBC aired a short series of radio programmes entitled Parting Shots. The programmes featured a series of final communications, called valedictory despatches, from British Ambassadors leaving their posts to take up duties elsewhere or retire from the Diplomatic Service. As opposed to being merely vehicles for conveying reflective and summary knowledge about countries for the benefit of successors as well as the Foreign Office i…
The Victorian Information Society
Contrary to the "retro" image often awarded them, and despite their continuing enthusiasm and responsibility for the organization of printed materials, librarians are upbeat about the prospects of an information society driven primarily by electronic technologies, but in which libraries can play an important part. Public librarians detect a natural correlation between the historic democratic mission of their institution and the increased accessib…
Lost Worlds of Culture
Lost Worlds of Culture: Victorian libraries, library history and prospects for a history of information Get access Alistair Black Alistair Black 1 Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 95–112, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505940 Published: 01 March 1997
Part of Our Lives
Lost Worlds of Culture
Lost Worlds of Culture: Victorian libraries, library history and prospects for a history of information Get access Alistair Black Alistair Black 1 Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 95–112, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505940 Published: 01 March 1997
Lost Worlds of Culture
Lost Worlds of Culture: Victorian libraries, library history and prospects for a history of information Get access Alistair Black Alistair Black 1 Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 95–112, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505940 Published: 01 March 1997
The Victorian Information Society
Contrary to the "retro" image often awarded them, and despite their continuing enthusiasm and responsibility for the organization of printed materials, librarians are upbeat about the prospects of an information society driven primarily by electronic technologies, but in which libraries can play an important part. Public librarians detect a natural correlation between the historic democratic mission of their institution and the increased accessib…
Knowledge management and diplomacy
In October 2009 the BBC aired a short series of radio programmes entitled Parting Shots. The programmes featured a series of final communications, called valedictory despatches, from British Ambassadors leaving their posts to take up duties elsewhere or retire from the Diplomatic Service. As opposed to being merely vehicles for conveying reflective and summary knowledge about countries for the benefit of successors as well as the Foreign Office i…
Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing
Staff magazines in British public libraries emerged in the early twentieth century. Unlike staff magazines in private enterprises, which predate them by two decades, library staff magazines were more truly the product of employees, inaugurated and operated as they often were by staff associations. This study is based on an analysis of staff magazines in three public library systems in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century: Croydon, S…
The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present
Corporate libraries of the kind we would recognize today began to appear around the turn of the twentieth century. They were a response to a rapidly changing corporate and commercial environment, acting as adjuncts to both the rise of systematic industrial research and the office management revolution that accompanied the implementation of scientific management. A survey of American corporate libraries in 1916 by the British manufacturer Rowntree…
Part of Our Lives
Revisiting the Carnegie Public Library built form
Despite the challenges involved in re-cycling older library buildings, it is important not to underestimate the value of extant Carnegie libraries, which in many places are among the most celebrated and cherished structures in the community. Any tendency to underestimate the possibilities for extant Carnegie library buildings can be reduced by revisiting their original designs and challenging popular impressions that are based on unwarranted retr…
American Public School Librarianship
"American Public School Librarianship: A History, by Wayne A. Wiegand." Library & Information History, 38(2), pp. 167–168
Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public
"Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era through World War II, by Bernadette Lear." Library & Information History, 38(1), pp. 77–78
Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Library science (5 works) · Library Science and Administration (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library history (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)