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Aspects of Modern Librarianship 1877-2002
To mark the 125th birthday of the Library Association, the Library History
Group has brought together a variety of speakers, each experts in their own
field, for a one-day seminar on the history of librarianship and library
services in the modern era. Libraries and library practices have existed
since antiquity, but it is only since the last quarter of the nineteenth
century that they have received the attention of a professional workforce
characterised by a service ethos and a rational approach to the development
of services. Many of the seminar's speakers have written chapters for
Cambridge University Press' forthcoming History of Libraries in Britain and
Ireland.
Speakers and topics: Jack Meadows (Science libraries and science
information); Ian Cornelius (Philosophy of librarianship); Alistair Duff
(Informatization); Kate Wood (Education for librarianship); Bernard Naylor
(Academic libraries); Bob Snape (Public libraries); Peter Hoare (The history
of the Library History Group); Simon Pepper (Library architecture).
Aspects of Modern Librarianship, 1877-2002
A One-Day Seminar Celebrating 125 Years of the Library Association
and 40 Years of the Library History Group
Venue: The Library Association
Date: Thursday 7 March 2002
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-09.40 Conference Welcome
(Bob McKee)
09.40-09.50 Conference Introduction
(Alistair Black)
09.50-10.30 Academic Libraries
(Bernard Naylor)
10.30-11.10 Leisure and the Public Library
(Bob Snape)
11.10-11.30 Break
11.30-12.10 Informatisation: the Four Electronic Dispensations
(Alistair Duff)
12.10-12.30 Forty years of the Library History Group
(Peter Hoare)
12.30-13.30 Buffet Lunch
13.30-14.20 The Built-Form and Physical Framework of Libraries
(Simon Pepper)
14.20-15.00 The Development of Science Libraries and Scientific
Information (Jack Meadows)
15.00-15.20 Break
15.20-16.00 Education for Librarianship
(Kate Wood)
16.00-16.40 The Development of the Library Profession
(Ian Cornelius)
16.40-17.15 Summary and Closing Discussion
(Peter Hoare)
For further details and to register for the seminar, contact: Alistair
Black, Professor of Library & Information History, School of Information
Management, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park Campus, Leeds, LS6
3QS. Email: a.black:lmu.ac.uk
Price: £25 (to include buffet lunch) - Payable to the Library History Group
Venue: The Library Association, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.
Date: Thursday, 7th March 2002.
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