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Read the review on “The Library Quarterly”, vol. 88 n.1, 2018

The volume deals with some of the most relevant issues related to the identity of the public library and its historical, cultural, social, organizational changes, according to a comparative perspective. The topics are covered in four sections (History, Present and Future of the Public Library; Models of Analysis, Measurement, Evaluation; Complexity Challenges; Work in Progress), thus providing a wide overview of the present and the future of an institution paramount in improving people’s lives.

Contributors: Paolo Traniello (formerly Universita Roma Tre); Margarita Perez Pulido (Universidad de Extremadura); Maurizio Vivarelli (Universita di Torino); Aurora Gonzalez Teruel (Universitat de Valencia); Chiara Faggiolani (Universita La Sapienza, Roma); Giovanni Solimine (Universita La Sapienza, Roma); Ernest Abadal (Universitat de Barcelona); Giovanni Di Domenico (Universita di Salerno); Alberto Salarelli (Universita di Parma); Maria Pagano (Universita di Torino); Ilaria Giglio – Maria Maiorano (Universita di Salerno). Maria Senatore Polisetti (Universita di Salerno) is author of the Bibliography.