Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons
Title | Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Garner |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1800438605 |
Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.
Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons
Title | Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Garner |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1800438621 |
Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.
Library Services and Incarceration
Title | Library Services and Incarceration PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanie Austin |
Publisher | American Library Association |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2021-11-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0838937403 |
As part of our mission to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all library patrons, our profession needs to come to terms with the consequences of mass incarceration, which have saturated the everyday lives of people in the United States and heavily impacts Black, Indigenous, and people of color; LGBTQ people; and people who are in poverty. Jeanie Austin, a librarian with San Francisco Public Library's Jail and Reentry Services program, helms this important contribution to the discourse, providing tools applicable in a variety of settings. This text covers practical information about services in public and academic libraries, and libraries in juvenile detention centers, jails, and prisons, while contextualizing these services for LIS classrooms and interdisciplinary scholars. It powerfully advocates for rethinking the intersections between librarianship and carceral systems, pointing the way towards different possibilities. This clear-eyed text begins with an overview of the convergence of library and information science and carceral systems within the United States, summarizing histories of information access and control such as book banning, and the ongoing work of incarcerated people and community members to gain more access to materials; examines the range of carceral institutions and their forms, including juvenile detention, jails, immigration detention centers, adult prisons, and forms of electronic monitoring; draws from research into the information practices of incarcerated people as well as individual accounts to examine the importance of information access while incarcerated; shares valuable case studies of various library systems that are currently providing both direct and indirect services, including programming, book clubs, library spaces, roving book carts, and remote reference; provides guidance on collection development tools and processes; discusses methods for providing reentry support through library materials and programming, from customized signage and displays to raising public awareness of the realities of policing and incarceration; gives advice on supporting community groups and providing outreach to transitional housing; includes tips for building organizational support and getting started, with advice on approaching library management, creating procedures for challenges, ensuring patron privacy, and how to approach partners who are involved with overseeing the functioning of the carceral facility; and concludes with a set of next steps, recommended reading, and points of reflection.
Reference Librarianship & Justice
Title | Reference Librarianship & Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Adler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781634000512 |
"Explores the praxis, history and practice of reference librarianship in the context of social justice"--
Library Services to the Incarcerated
Title | Library Services to the Incarcerated PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Libraries and prisons |
ISBN |
A guide for librarians whose responsibilities include serving the incarcerated, either as full-time jail or prison librarians, or as public librarians who provide outreach services to correctional facilities. The authors show how you can apply the public library model to inmate populations, and discuss facilities and equipment, collection development, services and programming; computers and the Internet; managing human resources, including volunteers and inmate workers; budgeting and funding; and advocacy within the facility and in the community.
Manual for Institution Libraries
Title | Manual for Institution Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Sport in Prison
Title | Sport in Prison PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Meek |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135081832 |
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up in a cycle of offending and imprisonment, by offering an alternative means of excitement and risk taking to that gained through engaging in offending behaviour, or by providing an alternative social network and access to positive role models. This is the first book to explore the role of sport in prisons and its subsequent impact on rehabilitation and behavioural change. The book draws on research literature on the beneficial role of sport in community settings and on prison cultures and regimes, across disciplines including criminology, psychology, sociology and sport studies, as well as original qualitative and quantitative data gathered from research in prisons. It unpacks the meanings that prisoners and staff attach to sport participation and interventions in order to understand how to promote behavioural change through sport most effectively, while identifying and tackling the key emerging issues and challenges. Sport in Prison is essential reading for any advanced student, researcher, policy-maker or professional working in the criminal justice system with an interest in prisons, offending behaviour, rehabilitation, sport development, or the wider social significance of sport.