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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 aspect...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Advances in librarianship ;
v. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jane Garner
- Library programs and services. Exploring the rehabilitative role of the prison library : addressing sensitive information needs via cultural activities / Cheryl Canning and Steven Buchanan
- Expanding library service in jails and prisons through hip hop, meditation, and creativity / Kim McNeil Capers, Jill Anderson, and Nili Ness
- Prison libraries and literacy learning. Libraries Tasmania Prison Library Literacy Service : practitioner reflection / Iona Johnson
- Power to the people : public libraries using critical information literacy pedagogy in prisons / Emilie J. Hancock
- Censorship. Collaboration among prison libraries, public, and academic libraries and the impact of censorship / Dale Monobe, Bobbie Bushman, and Sarah McCall
- Books behind bars : cases of censorship in two south Mississippi prisons / Jennifer Elaine Steele
- Prison libraries around the world. Prison librarianship and prisoner education : a case study from Northern Ireland / Jayne Finlay and Jessica Bates
- Exploring juvenile justice facility library provision in Australia and South Carolina, USA / Jane Garner
- Reading behind bars : exploring reading interests and library use of prisoners in Croatian correctional facilities / Sanjica Faletar Tanacković, Meri Bajić, and Martina Dragija Ivanović
- Experiencing prison libraries in Sri Lanka : drawbacks and potential / Padma Bandaranayake
- 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
- Future views for prison libraries. Mandatory minimums : staffing correctional libraries / Erin Boyington and Renée Barnes
- Patron-centered services : disrupting the narrative of reformation and reading in American jails and prisons / Jeanie Austin and Emily Jacobson
- Voices from the inside. Normalization in the prison library / Tina Malén Hansen
- Escaping into the prison library / Damien Linnane
- "What a difference it made to my life" : an interview with an Australian prison library user / Anonymous.