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Peer reviewedMaack, Mary Niles – Library Quarterly, 1993
Shows how l'Heure Joyeuse, a children's library started in Paris in 1923 as a gift from U.S. philanthropists, became a model of open-access, user-oriented public libraries. L'Heure Joyeuse's unique role in the development of public libraries in France from before 1900 to the present is described. (41 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Foreign Countries, History, Librarian Attitudes
Monroe, Margaret E. – 1980
This review traces the history of the public library's role in the diffusion of information about American culture, surveys the influence of that role on library education, and describes five models which reflect the range of cultural roles presently being fulfilled in libraries and which identify the knowledge and skills librarians need to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art, Culture, History
