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Article about serving ex-offenders in Public Libraries
12:46 PM EST 1/3/08
Those of you who have a subscription to PLA's [url http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/publiclibraries/publiclibraries.cfm]Public Libraries[/url] might be interested in this month's article about serving ex-offenders "Public Libraries and the Ex-Offender" by Brendan Dowling. Merribeth Advocate, WebJunction's most recent [url http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=18956]Member Spotlight[/url], is quoted in the article.

Unfortunately, the article is not yet available electronically.

Emily
Re: Article about serving ex-offenders in Public Libraries
7:35 PM EDT 6/11/08 as a reply to Emily Inlow-Hood.
Some more resources for prison librarians:

Down for the Count, book by Brenda Vogel.

"The prison library: An issue for corrections or a correct solution for its issues?" by Robert M. Stearns in Behavioral and Social Science Librarian, Vol. 23, no. 1, 2004, 49-80.
Re: Article about serving ex-offenders in Public Libraries
3:06 PM EDT 6/12/08 as a reply to Robert Stearns.
Thanks for sharing the resource ... and welcome to WebJunction!