Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons : international perspectives /: international perspectives. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jane Garner.
• Editors: Garner, Jane
• 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 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.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 027.665; Prison libraries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800438620; 9781800438606
• Related ISBNs: 9781800438613
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