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Library services and incarceration : recognizing barriers, strengthening access / Jeanie Austin ; foreword by Kathleen de la Peña McCook.
Loaned to Another Library Z675.P8 A94 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Jeanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prison libraries--United States.
- Prison libraries.
- Libraries and prisons--United States.
- Libraries and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 186 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This book provides librarians and those studying to enter the profession with tools to grapple with their own implication within systems of policing and incarceration, melding critical theory with real-world examples to demonstrate how to effectively serve people impacted by incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Philosophical Approaches
- Carceral Histories in the United States
- Forms of Incarceration
- Information and Incarceration
- Information Interstices: Technologies and Flows of Power
- Models of Direct Service
- Models of Indirect Service
- Reentry Support and Programming
- Building Institutional Support and Getting Started.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Austin, Jeanie. Library services and incarceration.
- ISBN:
- 9780838949450
- 0838949452
- OCLC:
- 1260692235
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