Books in Review

Prolific Saskatoon poet, playwright, short-story writer, and scholar, Don Kerr, has written a history of Saskatchewan’s “one-province” public-library system to coincide with the province’s centennial celebrations. Fittingly celebratory in its tone, this book is a partly personal and partly historical narrative. Kerr’s central theme is to outline how one of the reportedly weakest library services in Canada came to be, in his words, one of the best. Read more...