Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Part I: Precedents -- European Influences: Before 1800 -- Early Public Libraries in the U.S.: 1800 to 1880s -- Early Beaux-Arts Libraries: 1850s to 1910s -- Carnegie Libraries: 1890s to 1920s -- Decentralized Departmental Libraries: 1890s to 1930s -- Early Modern Libraries: 1920s to 1940s -- Postwar Modern Libraries: 1950s to 1970s -- Postmodern Libraries: 1970s and 1980s -- Part II: Projects -- Central Municipal and Regional Libraries -- Urban Neighborhood Branch Libraries -- Suburban Neighborhood Branch and Community Libraries -- Collocated Libraries, Additions, and Modernizations -- Libraries in Northern Europe