Title

Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the "Underserved"

Authors

Jeanie Austin
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, University of Rhode IslandFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

2020

Abstract

This article addresses an approach to library services for people who are incarcerated that meets the situated information needs and desires of people within jails and prisons. By creating a flow of information between LIS students and individuals who are incarcerated through a Reference by Mail program, resources available to incarcerated people are increased while students engage in a humanizing and self-reflexive project, with the understanding that the regulation of information within jails and prisons has lasting effects for the life chances of incarcerated people.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Austin, Jeanie, & Villa-Nicholas, Melissa. (2019). Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the "Underserved". The Reference Librarian, 60(4), 233-261.

Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1645077