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ALA American Library Association Services to Incarcerated People and Ex-Offenders - Column
Behind the Walls @ Your Library, Glennor Shirley, column editor

American Library Association President Loriene Roy releases statement on removal of religious texts from prison libraries
(ALA September 24, 2007 )

Maryland Prison Libraries Prepare for the New Population
Interface - A division of the American Library Association.
Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2007.
(Glennor Shirley, Library Coordinator, Correctional Education Libraries, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation)

The Context of the  Information Behavior of Prison Inmates
Diane E. Campbell Progressive Librarian
Issue # 26  Winter 2005/2006.

Correctional Libraries, Library Standards and Diversity 
Glennor Shirley, Library Coordinator, Correctional Education Libraries, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Journal of Correctional Education June 2003

Folsom Prison Library (PDF document, download Adobe Acrobat for free)
Sarah Dalton, Correctional Education 2003.

The Great Escape.
Holbrook Sample.  City Limits Magazine. February 2001.

Imprisoned fathers reach out, one videotaped story at a time.
Meg Jones.  Dec. 26, 2002 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Library Services to Disadvantaged User Groups.  Library services to adult prisoners in the United States
Glennor Shirley, Library Coordinator, Correctional Education Libraries,  Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation,  Libraries, Library Ideas, March 2006

Planning and Implementing Prison Libraries and Strategies and Resources (PDF document, download Adobe Acrobat for free). Vibeke Lehmann, Library Services Coordinator.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Madison, Wisconsin. World Library and Information Congress:  69th IFLA General Conference and Council. August, 109, 2003.  Berlin.

Prison Law Librarians and Prison Law Libraries.
Arlene Griffin, Professor Roy Balest, Law Librarianship, November 20, 2004

Prison Librarian Needed:  A Challenging Career for those with the right Professional and Human Skills.
Vibeke Lehmann, Library Services Coordinator. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Madison, Wisconsin.  IFLANET - International Federation of Library Association and Institution. 65th IFLA Council and General Conference.  Conference Proceedings.  Bangkok, Thailand, August 20-28, 1999.

Prison Libraries Change Lives
Marjorie Lemon, Information Outlook, November 1997

Prisoners' Right of Access to the Courts:  Law Libraries in United States Prisons.
Vibeke Lehmann, Library Services Coordinator. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Madison, Wisconsin.  IFLANET - International Federation of Library Association and Institution.  60th IFLA General Conference Proceedings. August 21-27, 1994.

Recruiting for Prison Libraries (Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2005)
Glennor Shirley, Library Coordinator, Correctional Education Libraries, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Interface - Web Companion to the Newsletter of the Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies a division of the American Library Association

Three Experts Describe "How to be a Successful Prison Librarian:  Preparation for a Foreign Land"
Julie Schneider, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility.  Volume 3,
Number 25, 2003.  Interface - Web Companion to the Newsletter of the Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, a division of the American Library Association

Vignettes from a Prison Librarian (Volume 28, #1 Spring 2006)
Glennor Shirley, Library Coordinator, Correctional Education Libraries, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.  Interface - Web Companion to the Newsletter of the Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies a division of the American Library Association

 
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