(via Dr. Jeanie Austin, San Francisco Public Library)
As part of San Francisco Public Library’s Mellon-funded Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People project, a group of researchers are attempting to identify academic, public, and special library services that libraries outside of jails, juvenile detention centers, and prisons provide to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We’ve recently published an article in Library Journal describing our findings from an initial survey on this topic (that article is available here). We’ve relaunched the survey in hopes of identifying newly developed services or anything we may have missed in the first round.
To share information about academic, public, or special library services to incarcerated people, please complete the survey here.
If you’ve previously completed this survey, please note that there are a few additional questions in this round if you would like to supply more information (you won’t have to complete the whole thing again!).
Please note: We plan to survey librarians employed by jails, juvenile detention centers, and prisons in the future.