Used while designing a newpubliclibraryor another type of public building, its cases provide suggestions about layout, way-finding, and other issues facing designers.
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Thepubliclibrary, however, still awaits its history.
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But it is also precisely for this reason that the plan to open apubliclibrarygave rise to strong objections.
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We need, therefore, to bring libraries, and especially thepubliclibrary, back into the heart of our analysis of the culture of the nineteenth-century city.
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All this is informed by a sense of the changing historical context which framed the expansion ofpubliclibraryprovision.
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In the latter case, there is an adoption of a pre-existent meta-knowledge component (for example, residing in apubliclibrary), and the cost is related to familiarisation and installation issues.
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For too long thepubliclibraryhas been seen as socially and politically neutral, in part because the detailed chronologies which constituted its history rarely thought to raise such issues.
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The fear of seeing elected municipal representatives disrupt this delicate balance by building apubliclibrarywas most strongly felt by several francophone elites, headed by the clergy.
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The management and development of the corepubliclibraryservice is the responsibility of local authorities.
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A comprehensive and efficientpubliclibraryservice must provide at least three facilities.
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We must particularly consider, especially in the next few years, the importance of thepubliclibraryto the student.
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Apubliclibraryshould certainly provide an adequate reference section.
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Secondly, it is proposed that a minimum standard of service ought to be provided by allpubliclibraryauthorities.
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We have not applied our minds to anything like the same extent to the provision of extra mural facilities in thepubliclibraryservice.
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A second need is the need for students to use thepubliclibraryduring vacations.
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