The library as place [Texte imprimé] : history, community, and culture / edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie ; foreword by Wayne A. Wiegand and John Carlo Bertot

Notes bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Index

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