Category FAQs Search : Libraries for the underserved
Question: Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the "Underserved"
Answer: This article addresses an approach to library services for people who are incarcerated that meets the situated information needs and desires of people within jails and prisons. By creating a flow of information between LIS students and individuals who are incarcerated through a Reference by Mail program, resources available to incarcerated people are increased while students engage in a humanizing and self-reflexive project, with the understanding that the regulation of information within jails and prisons has lasting effects for the life chances of incarcerated people.
(Source: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, 11 Jun 2021)
Source Link: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/lsc_facpubs/23/