Books By Alistair Black - Author

Alistair Black is Professor in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is author of A New History of the English Public Library (1996) and The Public Library in Britain 1914-2000 (2000). He is co-author of Understanding Community Librarianship (1997), The Early Information Society in Britain, 1900-1960 (2007) and Books, Buildings and Social Engineering (2009). He was Chair of the Library History Group of the Library Association, 1992–1999, and of the IFLA Section on Library History, 2003–2007. He was editor of the international journal Library History, 2004–2008, and the North American editor of Library and Information History, 2009–2013. He is general editor of the journal Library Trends.