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Prison Libraries in Italy

Costanzo, Emanuela; Montecchi, Giorgio

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Title
Prison Libraries in Italy
Author(s)
  • Costanzo, Emanuela
  • Montecchi, Giorgio
Contributor(s)
Derhemi, Eda
Issue Date
2011
Keyword(s)
  • Library and Information Services to Incarcerated Persons: Global Perspectives
  • Prison libraries -- Italy.
Abstract
This article deals with prison library services in Italy, highlighting national and regional developments over the last twenty-five to thirty years. The article is divided into six parts: (1) a brief history of Italian prison libraries; (2) the structure and organization of the first institutional libraries (in Turin, Rome, Padua, Ravenna, Milan, Treviso, and Sardinia); (3) considerations by the prison administration and support from the Italian Justice Ministry; (4) the role of the university (the Association of Prison Libraries [ABC] and the new Italian Library Association [AIB] special interest group on people with special needs); (5) newer prison libraries and future projects; and (6) some user data and final conclusions.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright 2011 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 59 (3) Winter 2011: Library and Information Services to Incarcerated Persons: Global Perspectives PRIMARY
Library Trends 59 (3) Winter 2011: Library and Information Services to Incarcerated Persons: Global Perspectives. Edited by Vibeke Lehmann