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- Title
Reference Services to Incarcerated People, Part I.
- Authors
Drabinski, Emily; Rabina, Debbie
- Abstract
The article articulates the information needs of incarcerated people in the New York Public Library's Correctional Services Program. It describes the theory of information poverty as a frame of understanding reference questions students answered. The method and procedures for the project, data resources and collection methods used to teach students enrolled in a core Information Resources Services course are also detailed. An analysis of the letters from incarcerated people is presented.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NEW York Public Library; LIBRARIES &; prisons; PRISONERS; INFORMATION literacy; INFORMATION science education; SERVICES for prisoners
- Publication
Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2015, Vol 55, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1094-9054
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5860/rusq.55n1.42