The last few months I have been reading the emails posted on the ALA Libary Service to Prisoners Forum, and I have been very interested in the different ways the libraries handle the material and what they are able to do in each library.
It's time once again to nominate your favorite librarians for the annual I Love My Librarian award. Up to ten winning librarians will be honored with a $5000 award and will get to represent in New York this December.
It came as a great shock to us here at the library when the Spokane, Washington newspaper, "Spokesman Review," decided it would no longer mail its publication; home delivery or the Internet will be the only options.
For anyone interested in the Institutional Library Services category, I'll share a link to the Colorado Libraries blog, which has some similar content. You will also see accounts written by people from outside the field who were allowed to go inside some of the prisons and get a sense of what this work environment is like and how offenders use the libraries.
