Download or read book Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere written by Lara Atkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
Download or read book Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin China Siam and Muscat written by Edmund Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South African Public Library written by South African Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public Library in South Africa written by Theodorus Friis and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Catalogue of the Books in the South Africa Public Library with a list of donors office bearers and the regulations of the institution Compiled by the Librarian Frederick Maskew written by South African Public Library (CAPETOWN) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Libraries for the Development of South Africa written by R. B. Zaaiman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Spaces in South Africa 1850 1920s written by Archie L. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free-of-charge to the general public. This became one more reading space, and others included book societies, reading societies, literary societies, debating societies, mechanics institutes, and mutual improvement societies. This Element explains how reading communities used these spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa's colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation.
Download or read book The Public Library Systems of Great Britain America and South Africa written by Bertram Laslett Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Catalogue of Books in the South African Public Library Cape Town Cape of Good Hope written by South African Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of the South African public library written by Cape Town S. Afr. publ. libr and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South African Library Association written by South African Library Association. Subcommittee on Public Library Standards and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South written by David M. Battles and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of African Americans' long struggle to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public library movement in America is also well documented. However, the story of the African American struggle to access public libraries in the South is limited; much of what has been written was told in piecemeal fashion in short studies or confined to a particular southern state.
Download or read book Standards for South African Public Libraries written by South African Library Association. Subcommittee on Public Library Standards and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apartheid in South African Libraries written by Jacqueline Audrey Kalley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa will be dealing with the legacy of apartheid for generations. Dr. Jacqueline Kalley has had the foresight and vision to document the experiences of black library users during South Africa's years of apartheid, focusing her studies on the second half of the twentieth century, when apartheid reached its zenith. Apartheid in South African Libraries is an in-depth study of the effect of apartheid on public, provincial, and community library services in South Africa. With a high degree of accuracy and objectivity, Dr. Kalley documents the past record and experiences of black libraries. She masterfully integrates the numerous aspects of this complicated subject including historical, legal, and resource concerns. A historical introduction helps provide background and context for the work, and an index, bibliography, and photographs round out the book.
Download or read book Freedom Libraries written by Mike Selby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into how Freedom Libraries were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only, and there was another virtually unheard of struggle— the right to read.
Download or read book Standards for South African Public Libraries written by South African Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standards for South African Public Libraries written by South African Library Association. Committee of Public Library Standards and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
