Historical Perspectives on Problem Patrons from the British Public Library Sector, 1850-1919

Peatling, G. K.

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“…For example, 19th century British public libraries sought to inculcate respectable values and habits in users such as punctuality, hard work, thrift, and self-control (Black, 2005). Female and juvenile users were viewed with particular unease (Peatling, 2002). In the 19th century USA, unemployed young men were seen to need moral and socially improving materials to counter the delinquency of the saloon and the street corner (Stauffer, 2016).…”

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How Do You Solve a Problem like the Whole User? The Construction of Worthy and Problematic Users in Online Discussions of the Public Library

McKenzie

2019

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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How do you solve a problem like the whole user? The construction of worthy and problematic users in online discussions of the public library In this article I use a discursive approach and the concept of the 'category entitlement' to analyse the ways that contributors to a public Internet discussion of the value of the public library make cases for different user characteristics and behaviour as 'worthy' or 'problematic', and use these characteristics to discuss and debate the kinds of individuals and the kinds of behaviour that properly belong to each category. Contributors to the discussion represented users in three categories: a fluid 'everyone', which included people represented as being disadvantaged and in legitimate need of the library's resources, expertise, and support; the user information , whose worthy variant takes advantage of the library's offerings to achieve success in economic, cultural, and civic domains and whose problematic variant fails to do so; and the visceral user who may meet bodily needs or engage in pleasurable non-purposive activities and who is deemed worthy or problematic based on their behaviour in the library space. Despite public libraries' growing emphasis on serving the whole user, these public comments prioritise users who exercise their mind to develop into worthy members of a community and who meet behavioural expectations consistent with quiet intellectual activity.

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How Do You Solve a Problem like the Whole User? The Construction of Worthy and Problematic Users in Online Discussions of the Public Library

McKenzie

2019

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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The Past Public Library Observed: User Perceptions and Recollections of the Twentieth‐Century British Public Library Recorded in the Mass‐Observation Archive

Black¹

2006

The Library Quarterly

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The Library as Clinic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of British Public Library Attitudes to Social and Physical Disease, ca. 1850-1950

Black¹

2005

Libraries & the Cultural Record

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Historical Perspectives on Problem Patrons from the British Public Library Sector, 1850-1919

Cited by 3 publications

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How Do You Solve a Problem like the Whole User? The Construction of Worthy and Problematic Users in Online Discussions of the Public Library

How Do You Solve a Problem like the Whole User? The Construction of Worthy and Problematic Users in Online Discussions of the Public Library

The Past Public Library Observed: User Perceptions and Recollections of the Twentieth‐Century British Public Library Recorded in the Mass‐Observation Archive

The Library as Clinic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of British Public Library Attitudes to Social and Physical Disease, ca. 1850-1950

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