Library History Award: 2003 winner
The Library History Award for 2003 has been won by Dr David Allan for an article entitled "Provincial Readers and Book Culture in the Scottish Enlightenment: the Perth Library, 1784-c.1800". The article is published in The Library, vol. 3 (4), 2002, 367-89. The article locates library development in Scotland firmly within the Enlightenment and illustrates how libraries informed provincial developments. The article is well written and the references are scholarly and very detailed. It provides a sound basis for others wishing to do research in this area of library history
Updated: 30 June 2006