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  1. Black, A.: Information and modernity : the history of information and the eclipse of library history (1998) 0.03 
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    Abstract
    Argues that library history should not be seen as as aspect of the history of institutions but as a subset of 'information history', particularly considering the role of librarians in the modern state in surveillance and bureaucracy
    Footnote
    Paper presented at the Library History Group's 'Libraries and Modernity' conference held as part of the Library Association's UmbrelLA4 meeting at UMIST, Manchester, June 1997
    Source
    Library history. 14(1998) no.1, S.39-45
  2. Black, A.: National planning for public library service : the work and ideas of Lionel McColvin (2004) 0.03 
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    Abstract
    Lionel McColvin (1896-1976) is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of British librarianship. In the specific context of 150 years of public librarianship in Britain, his reputation as a visionary influence is second only to that of the nineteenth-century pioneer Edward Edwards, while in the twentieth century his reputation is unsurpassed. McColvin was the major voice in the mid-twentieth-century movement to reconstruct and modernize public libraries. He is best known as author of The Public Library System of Great Britain: A Report on Its Present Condition with Proposals for Post-war Reorganization, published in 1942 at a moment of intense wartime efforts to assemble plans for social and economic reconstruction. The "McColvin Report," as it came to be termed, was a landmark in the struggle to de-Victorianize the public library, not least by emphasizing the institution's universalism and its function as a national, not just a civic, agency. This article briefly describes McColvin's notable contribution to twentieth-century librarianship, resulting from his work as a public librarian, as a leading figure in the Library Association, and as an influential player in the international library movement. The article's core aim is to offer a critical appraisal of McColvin's vision for public libraries by placing it in the context of the project to build a better postwar world. This project was defined by the conceptualization and development of a welfare state in Britain, the underlying values of which can be seen to correspond to McColvin's national plan for a rejuvenated public library system. McColvin drew on the spirit of the time to produce a plan for public libraries that was shot through with social idealism and commitment and with a confidence in the need for intervention by the state-values that perhaps provide lessons for current and future library and information policymakers and professionals.
  3. Black, A.: ¬The history of information (2006) 0.03 
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  4. Black, A.; Schiller, D.: Systems of information : the long view (2014) 0.02 
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    Abstract
    In response to the perceived (by some) onset of an information society, historians have begun to study its roots and antecedents. The past is replete with the rise, fall, and transformation of systems of information, which are not to be confused with the narrower computer-mediated world of information systems. The history of systems of information-which for digestibility can be labeled information history-lacks neither scale nor scope. Systems of information have played a critical role in the transition to, and subsequent development of, capitalism; the growth of the state, especially the modern, nation-state; the rise of modernity, science, and the public sphere; imperialism; and geopolitics. In the context of these epochal shifts and episodes in human thinking and social organization, this essay presents a critical bibliographic survey of histories-outside the well-trodden paths of library and information-science history-that have foregrounded, or made reference to, a wide variety of systems of information.
  5. Black, A.: ¬The open access revolution in British public libraries : consumer democracy or controlling discourse? (1994) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    Traces the origin of the open access public library , in the UK, from the late 19th century to World War I and beyond and discusses the wider social and political implications of this trend

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