Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons : international perspectives

Over the past fifty years, only a small body of knowledge has been published regarding libraries in prisons. Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons: International Perspectives aims to strengthen and expand this body of knowledge, with each -- Chapter addressing different aspects o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Garner, Jane (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesAdvances in librarianship ; v. 49
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800438620
DOI10.1108/S0065-2830202149
Physical Description1 online resource (428 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jane Garner
  • Part 1. Library programs and services
  • Chapter 1. Exploring the rehabilitative role of the prison library: Addressing sensitive information needs via cultural activities / Cheryl Canning and Steven Buchanan
  • Chapter 2. Expanding library service in jails and prisons through hip hop. Meditation, and creativity / Kim McNeil Capers, Jill Anderson, and Nili Ness
  • Part 2. Prison libraries and literacy learning
  • Chapter 3. Libraries Tasmania prison library literacy service: practitioner reflection / Iona Johnson
  • Chapter 4. Power to the people: Public libraries using critical information literacy pedagogy in prisons / Emilie Hancock
  • Part 3. Censorship
  • Chapter 5. Collaboration among prison libraries, public, and academic libraries and the impact of censorship / Dale Monobe, Bobbie Bushman, and Sarah McCall
  • Chapter 6. Books behind bars: Cases of censorship in two south mississippi prisons / Jennifer Elaine Steele
  • Part 4. Prison libraries around the world
  • Chapter 7. Prison librarianship and prisoner education: A case study from northern Ireland / Jayne Finlay and Jessica Bates
  • Chapter 8. Exploring juvenile justice facility library provision in Australia and South Carolina, USA / Jane Garner
  • Chapter 9. Reading behind bars: results of a study into reading interests and library use of prisoners in Croatian correctional facilities / Meri Bajic, Martina Dragija Ivanovic, and Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic
  • Chapter 10. Experiencing prison libraries in sri lanka: Drawbacks and potential / Padma Bandaranayake
  • Chapter 11. Books open worlds for people behind bars: library services in Germany's prisons ranging from local best practice examples and regional experiences in North Rhine-Westphalia to steadily growing internationality / Gerhard Peschers
  • Part 5. Future views for prison libraries
  • Chapter 12. Mandatory minimums: staffing correctional libraries / Erin Boyington and Renee Barnes
  • Chapter 13. Patron-centered services: Disrupting the narrative of reformation and reading American jails and prisons / Jeanie Austin and Emily Jacobson
  • Part 6. Voices from the inside
  • Chapter 14. Normalisation in the prison library / Tina Malén Hansen
  • Chapter 15. Escaping into the prison library / Damien Linnane
  • Chapter 16. "What a difference it made to my life": An interview with an Australian prison library user / Anonymous.