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Subject(s)

• Libraries—Social aspects [Browse]
• Libraries and community [Browse]
• Library architecture [Browse]

Related name

• Buschman, John [Browse]
• Leckie, Gloria J. [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Space, place, and libraries : an introduction / Gloria J. Leckie and John Buschman
• Beneficial spaces : the rise of military libraries in the British Empire / Ronald Tetreault
• Libraries in public before the age of public libraries : interpreting the furnishings and design of athenaeums and other "social libraries", 1800-1860 / Adam Arenson
• A grand old sandstone lady : Vancouver's Carnegie Library / Ann Curry
• The fruit and root of the community : the Greensboro Carnegie Negro Library, 1904-1964 / Julia A. Hersberger, Lou Sua, and Adam L. Murray
• Locating the library as place among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer patrons / Paulette Rothbauer
• Behind the program-room door : the creation of parochial and private women's realms in a Canadian public library / Pamela J. MacKenzie ... [et al.]
• Seattle Public Library as place : reconceptualizing space, community, and information / Karen E. Fisher ... [et al.]
• Stimulating space, serendipitous space : library as place in the life of the scholar / Karen Antell and Debra Engel
• Setting the stage for undergraduates' information behaviors : faculty and librarians' perspectives on academic space / Lisa M. Given
• The research library as place : on the essential importance of collections of books shelved in subject-classified arrangements / Thomas Mann
• On the myths of libraries / Bonnie Mak
• Managing pleasure : library architecture and the erotics of reading / Abigail Van Slyck
• Going to hell : placing the library in Buffy the vampire slayer / Adriana Estill.

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ISBN

• 1591583829 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 9781591583820 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006033743

OCLC

74492028

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