Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons
International Perspectives
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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 of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.
Writing from Croatia, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Australia, Norway, Germany and the United States of America, this edited collection focuses on prison library programming, the role of prison libraries as supporters of prisoner literacy development, censorship, future visions for prison libraries, and descriptions of prison libraries across the world. Libraries in both adult and juvenile prisons are studied, as are prison libraries from diverse carceral contexts such as the rapidly expanding American carceral system, through to the 'normalisation' prisons of Norway.
This book will be of interest to prison managers, education and custodial staff, prison librarians, library and information studies academics and students, education researchers and practitioners, readers interested in social justice, education, censorship, prison life, and prison reform.
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 Bajić, Martina Dragija Ivanović, and Sanjica Faletar Tanacković
- 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
Jane Garner is a lecturer and researcher with the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her research interests include the role of libraries, books and reading in the lives of underserved and disadvantaged communities, including people living in prisons and people experiencing homelessness. She is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations' Section on Library Services to People with Special Needs.