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A Book in Every Hand: Public Libraries in Saskatchewan | Don Kerr

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The challenges of establishing a system of libraries to serve the far-flung, mainly agrarian populace of Saskatchewan were large indeed. In an engaging, personal narrative style, Don Kerr utilizes public meeting accounts, official reports, interviews, and personal experience to document the struggles, the triumphs, and the challenges. Beginning with the CPR libraries and the "Mechanics and Literary Institutes" that predated public libraries, he charts the province's progress through travelling and "open shelf" libraries to the development of the provincial library, and then the groundbreaking interconnected regional library system. It took strong people to make it all happen, and A Book in Every Hand notes and celebrates major players in Saskatchewan's library history - librarians, politicians, civic leaders and bureaucrats. Names such as Angus Mowat, Marian Gilroy, Frances Morrison, Jesse Bothwell, Mary MacIssac, Alice Turner, Pat Cavill, Carlyle King, George Meadow, Ron Yeo, and numerous others. The text is supplemented by 50 historical photographs, and also includes a special section of colour photographs featuring existing Saskatchewan heritage libraries of architectural significance.

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A Book in Every Hand: Public Libraries in Saskatchewan | Don Kerr

so-so

It is probably more of interest to librarians and/or people from Saskatchewan who use or once used their public/regional libraries. I am both a librarian and I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. I did find it interesting to read about how the different regional systems were formed, the politics, etc. There were a lot of stats and economics included, as well, which all sounds not overly exciting, but it‘s written in an accessible way.

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