Prison Librarian and Outreach

Prison Librarianship can be isolating because most librarians work as one person managers. The librarian who does not get involved in outside professional organizations tend to become institutionalized. What? Hammered daily by the rules, rigidities, and regulations of those intent on public safety, and concerned about job security, some find it easier to conform to the arbitrary censorshop of reading materials, and begin to identify more with security. To keep my focus as a librarian rather than as a prison librarian, I am involved with the larger library community, and this year I will become the President of the Maryland Library Association. This has been a great help in putting the face of prison libraries in front. Read my other blog: Foreign Librarian in Library Land