{"product_id":"library-services-and-incarceration-recognizing-barriers-strengthening-access-paperback","title":"Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanie Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of our mission to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all library patrons, our profession needs to come to terms with the consequences of mass incarceration, which have saturated the everyday lives of people in the United States and heavily impacts Black, Indigenous, and people of color; LGBTQ people; and people who are in poverty. Jeanie Austin, a librarian with San Francisco Public Library's Jail and Reentry Services program, helms this important contribution to the discourse, providing tools applicable in a variety of settings. This text covers practical information about services in public and academic libraries, and libraries in juvenile detention centers, jails, and prisons, while contextualizing these services for LIS classrooms and interdisciplinary scholars. It powerfully advocates for rethinking the intersections between librarianship and carceral systems, pointing the way towards different possibilities. This clear-eyed text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebegins with an overview of the convergence of library and information science and carceral systems within the United States, summarizing histories of information access and control such as book banning, and the ongoing work of incarcerated people and community members to gain more access to materials;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexamines the range of carceral institutions and their forms, including juvenile detention, jails, immigration detention centers, adult prisons, and forms of electronic monitoring;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edraws from research into the information practices of incarcerated people as well as individual accounts to examine the importance of information access while incarcerated;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eshares valuable case studies of various library systems that are currently providing both direct and indirect services, including programming, book clubs, library spaces, roving book carts, and remote reference;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprovides guidance on collection development tools and processes;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ediscusses methods for providing reentry support through library materials and programming, from customized signage and displays to raising public awareness of the realities of policing and incarceration;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egives advice on supporting community groups and providing outreach to transitional housing;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eincludes tips for building organizational support and getting started, with advice on approaching library management, creating procedures for challenges, ensuring patron privacy, and how to approach partners who are involved with overseeing the functioning of the carceral facility; and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econcludes with a set of next steps, recommended reading, and points of reflection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanie Austin\u003c\/b\u003e earned their PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are a jail and reentry services librarian at the San Francisco Public Library. They have provided library services in juvenile detention centers and jails, and researched library services in carceral facilities, for over a decade. Their work has been published in \u003ci\u003eFirst Monday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Information\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiversity \u0026amp; Inclusion (IJIDI)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Librarianship and Information Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and \u003ci\u003eThe Reference Librarian\u003c\/i\u003e, among other venues. They were named a \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Mover \u0026amp; Shaker in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45313126039596,"sku":"9780838949450","price":98.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/NmEveTYzWHRRZ1F4UEhzY25qQ1dXQT09.webp?v=1771617204","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/library-services-and-incarceration-recognizing-barriers-strengthening-access-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}