Monday, January 14, 2013

Library Movement in United Kingdom, Milestones



Andrew Carnegie

Library Association was formed in the year :
1877

The Carnegie Grants for Libraries are restricted to:
Library Building construction

Passmore Edwards is related to:
Grants for Public Libraries

First Public Library Act in UK was in the Year:
1850

Reading society, book society, Literary Society is the Examples for:
Book club

Subscription Libraries worked under ---------- motives
Commercial

------------------ Class benefited by Book clubs:
Working Class

Did the Book clubs have Librarians?
No

Was there a Permanent Building for Book clubs?
No

Inns, coffee houses, member’s homes were the meeting places of----------:
Book club members

London Library was formed in 1841 by the efforts of……………………….
Thomas Carlyle



What type Libraries came for the first time, in UK?
Monastic Libraries

Cathedral Libraries and Parish Libraries were related to---------------------- libraries
Monastic Libraries

Earliest Public Library of England is -----, established in -----London Guildhall; 1425

City Library was established in ----------
1608

Oldest Public Library in the English speaking world is -----------
Chetham's Library, Manchester, 1653

Dr.Thomas Bray associated with the establishment of---------------------libraries
Parish

St.Paul Library and Lincoln Library were destroyed by----------
Fire

Subscription Libraries are the forerunners of-----------------------
Public Libraries

Biggest Subscription Library in UK was at---------------------------
Liverpool

‘’Boots’’ and ‘’W.H.Smith & Sons’’ are the examples of------------------------libraries
Circulating Commercial libraries

Groups of mechanics, working in various industries known as---
‘'mechanic institutes’’

First circulating commercial Library in UK was at-------------------- established by-------------
Edinburgh; Allan Pamsay

Glasgow mechanic institute was formed in year --------------------
1823

Who was the chairman for the enactment of Library Legislation in 1850?
William Ewart (Member of Parliament)

Adams Report was based on the survey of--------------------Libraries
Public Libraries

Full name of Adams is-------------------------
William George Stewart Adams

Parry committee report (1967) paved the way towards the formation of------------------------
British National Library

Parry committee was appointed under-----------------------------
Thomas Parry

British Library Act came to force in -------------------------------
1973

BLAISE means
British Library’s Automated Information Service


Present British Library is actually an amalgamation of-------- ,--------, --------- and --------.

British Museum Library, National Central Library, National Lending Library for Science and Technology and British National Bibliography

The --------------- Libraries are the integrated Library services of The Oxford University

Bodlein 

-------------------- is credited with the formation of Bodlean Library

Thomas Bodley

Liverpool subscription Library was renamed as ------------ in 1798
Athenaeum




















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