Description
Book SynopsisOver 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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
