26 三 09 英国图书馆史
1850 Public Libraries Act
1852 The first free public library opened in Manchester
1853 Act extended to Scotland and Ireland
1855 Public Libraries Act. Limit on rates that could be levied for library services raised to
1d.
1877 Library Association founded. A professional association for libraries and librarians,
one of its early aims was the introduction of accredited library qualifications.
1912 Workers Educational Association (WEA) establishes the Central Library for Tutorial
Classes (CLTC)
1915 Adams Report on Library provision and policy. This report to the Carnegie Trustees
made the case for the urgent establishment of libraries in rural areas.
1916 Carnegie Foundation provides funding for transformation of CLTC into Central Library
for Students. Foundation invested enormous sums in new library buildings at the end
of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (some 380 across the United Kingdom
as a whole).
1919 Public Libraries Act. Removed the penny rate limitation and allowed counties to
become library authorities.
1927 First codifying of resources for libraries. The County Libraries Section of the Library
Association recommends that a public library requires a minimum stock of 250 books
per 1000 population.
1927 Report on public libraries in England and Wales (Kenyon Report). Published by the
Board of Education, Libraries Committee,
1930 Central Library for Students became the National Central Library. It became the
foundation for inter library loans and later became a part of the British Library.
1942 The public library system of Great Britain (McColvin Report) published. Commissioned
by the Library Association, the report set out a blueprint for post-war reconstruction
of the library service.
1959 The structure of the public library service in England and Wales (Roberts Report)
published by the Ministry of Education.
1962 Standards of public library service in England and Wales (Bourdillon Report) published
by the Ministry of Education. Outlined benchmarks for the ‘basic requirements for an
efficient public library’.
1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act
1995 Department for National heritage set up the Library and Information Commission (LIC)
as a national source of expertise – advising government on all issues relating to the
library and information sector.
1998 Annual Library Plans introduced.
1998 Devolution legislation results in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, the
National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly with devolved
responsibility for the library service.
2000 The LIC replaced by Resource: The Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives,
which in turn changed its name to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
(MLA) in February 2004.
2000 People’s Network launched
2001 Public Library Standards (26) introduced in England
2002 Public Library Position Statements replace the Annual Library Plans in England.
2002 Audit Commission publishes Building Better Library Services.
2003 Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes Framework for the future
2003 Framework for the future: action plan 2003-06 published by Resource.
2004 Public Library Service Standards (10) replace Public Library Position Statements and
the original Public Library Standards.
2005 House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee publishes Public Libraries
report.
2007 Department for Communities and Local Government publishes Developing the local
government services market: new ways of working and new models of provision
within the public library service working paper produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers
2007 Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes revised Public Library Service
Standards.
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