Down for the Count: A Prison Library Handbook

Vogel, Brenda

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in charcoal cloth with black titles on cover and white on spine. xi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. VG+. Close to new besides a few small scuffs to the front board. Publishers announcement and order from laid in front. Item #212402
ISBN: 9780810829275

1. Prison Libraries: How They Came to Be -- 2. Making the Prison Library Function -- 3. Collection Management and Corresponding Woes; Censorship -- 4. The Prison Influence on Library Service -- 5. The Program Fit in the Organization -- 6. Space: Choosing it, Losing it; Design, Furnishings and Equipment -- 7. Library Service in the Prison Community; Similarities to the Outside Community and the Unique; How to Deliver on the Premise/Promise -- 8. Staff; Civilian and Inmate; Falling in Love and Other Pitfalls -- 9. Technology -- 10. They Became What They Beheld -- 11. Getting Over the Wall -- 12. A Mirror of Reality; the Generation Gap, the Information Gap and the Prison Librarian -- 13. The Prison Law Library; State of the Art? Quo State That They're In -- 14. On Making a Difference -- 15. Questions Most Frequently Asked -- App. 1. Aide Training Program. Maryland Correctional Education Libraries. Division of Correction, Regulation, No. 135-2-Library Services.