TY - BOOK AU - Manley,Keith A. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Voluntary Libraries of Victorian Britain: Volume 2 T2 - New Directions in Book History, SN - 9783031739552 AV - Z4-15.2 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Books KW - History KW - Literature, Modern KW - 19th century KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Civilization KW - History of the Book KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature KW - Literary History KW - Cultural History N1 - 1. Scotland: “Men with Moleskin Jackets Reading Books” -- 2. Ireland and the Channel Islands -- 3. Workplace Lending Libraries -- 4. Involuntary’ Libraries N2 - This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for municipal public libraries in areas where that sort of library provision did not exist. They may have been funded by wealthy philanthropists or by well-wishers. Attention is paid too to libraries which were aimed at specific communities, such as workers in factories, mills, mines, railway works, and shops, as well as book provision for policemen, soldiers and sailors, hospital patients, nurses, workhouses, prisoners, and domestic servants (and hotel guests). The voluntary public libraries of England and Wales are dealt with in Volume 1. Keith A. Manley's previously published books include Books, Borrowers, and Shareholders: Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries before 1825 (2012) and Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825 (2018). He also co-edited The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain, Vol. 2: 1640-1850 (2006). Keith is a Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), as well as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73955-2 ER -