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Hemp, Susan J.; Montgomery, Jack G., Ed. – Against the Grain, 1996
The population of state and federal prisons quadrupled between 1971 and 1991, increasing demand for library resources. Outlines the history of prison libraries (1700s-1990s); discusses prison libraries and librarians, law collections, reference services, literacy programs, and funding; and provides a bibliography of prison librarianship covering…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bibliographies, Law Libraries, Librarians