Article: Usherwood, B: Equity and excellence in the public library: why ignorance is not our heritage.(Book review)

Usherwood, B Equity and excellence in the public library: why ignorance is not our heritage Aldershot UK, Ashgate 2007 45.00 [pounds sterling] www.ashgate.com

Emeritus Professor Bob Usherwood is known to many public librarians for his long commitment to researching the public library. That he should celebrate his recent retirement with this title is testimony to the some 30 years he spent on this commitment as an academic and researcher at the University of Sheffield, and to his earlier years as a public librarian.

In the preface to the book, Usherwood admits that 'the text is more polemical than I had planned. The tone is a result of a sense of ...

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