Alistair Black

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...See more

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 . See less