Revisioning Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and ...

The new Standards will heed the current phenomenon of mass incarceration, the inequitable incarceration rates of BIPOC individuals, and the rising rates of ...

ALA Issues First Revision to Standards for Incarcerated and ...

ALA has recently issued a revised document, Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained. It will help support libraries ...

Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained ...

From "ALA Issues First Revision to Standards for Incarcerated and Detained Individuals in 32 Years," in Library Journal.

Libraries and Incarceration: Home - ALA LibGuides

Policy B.8.2 states, "The American Library Association encourages public libraries and systems to extend their services to residents of jails ...

Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People Initiative | ALA

Revisioning Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained ... In 2021, a task force of correctional library workers and other institutional ...

Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained

Commonly known as prison libraries, carceral libraries include any library within a holding, detention, jail, or prison facility. Color Rendering Index (CRI).

ALA Approves New Library Service Standards for the Incarcerated ...

The revised standards address the inequitable incarceration rates of undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals and people of color and offer ...

Revisioning Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and ...

Revisioning Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and Detained ... Dr. Kathleen McCook has been working with the American Library ...

ALA Council Updates Standards for Library Services for the ...

For the first time in over 30 years, librarians who work with incarcerated or detained individuals have a set of standards that reflect the ...

Serving Library Patrons Behind Bars - Ithaka S+R

Published literature on the topic has also begun to gain traction in the field, most notably Jeanie Austin's Library Services and Incarceration: ...

A Beacon Behind Bars: Updated Standards Designed to Increase ...

For over thirty years, the Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained has been an advocacy tool for carceral facility ...

Setting the Standards | American Libraries Magazine

Most recently, he served on the task force to develop ALA's Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained. Approved by ...

Guidelines - Institutional Libraries - Subject Guides at South ...

Guidelines for Prison Libraries · IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners (4th Edition) · Library Standards for Adult Correctional ...

Library Resources for People Who Have Experienced Incarceration

Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions ... In 2021, a task force of correctional library workers and other institutional stakeholders headed by ...

Blog – Dr. Jeanie Austin

ALA has recently issued a revised document, Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained. ... The guidelines also include a history of prison ...

Libraries and the Incarcerated Community

The 1992 Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions is being updated at a critical time in our nation's history as many library, education, and ...

Lighting the Way | American Libraries Magazine

This year, the standards for library services for people who are incarcerated were revised for the first time in 30 years. What kind of access ...

Standards work in progress - IFLA

Guidelines for Maintaining and Documenting IFLA Vocabularies (approved by CoS August 2023) · IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners, 4th edition ( ...

IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners (4th Edition)

This current edition is the result of a collaborative effort between many individuals from many countries. The writing team was led by Jane Garner (Charles ...

Resources for Correctional Libraries: Online Resources

Online Resources. Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and Detained, American Library Association · Resources for the Correctional ...