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From Staff Reports
It isn't your typical library:
Colorful parakeets fly freely overhead
and perch on nearby shelves
while rabbits .make rustling sounds
from their cages in die far corner.
Near the door, two patrons are
engaged in a lively game of pingpong,
and three men in a back section
are busy with leather crafts.
All are locked inside the library
of the Kirkland Correctional
Institute, litis state-run maximum
security prison in Richland County
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year.
The College of Library and
Information Science offers what
may be the only prison librarian
training program in the nation.
"Having a library in a prison is
akin to having an oasis in the
desert: It's life-sustaining," said Dr.
Linda Lucas Walling, the professor
who directs the program.
Walling teaches students how to
provide library services to special
populations ? people who are disabled
or institutionalized in a
prison, hospital or other facility.
Being a prison librarian is not
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of a public library, Lucas said. Like
a public school librarian, prison
librarians arc required to have a
master's degree in library and
information science and certification
as a school media specialist.
"A central facility orders and
processes the materials, but prison
librarians otherwise carry other
normal functions of a regular
librarian," she said. "They also
have the additional responsibilities
of coordinating craft activities,
video programming and pet therapy
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Inmates, in fact, use libraries
more frequently and in greater
numbers than the general population.
Seventy percent of inmates,
compared to 30 percent of the general
population, use libraries.
Because many inmates are not
reauers, prison lioraries aiso neip
teach literacy through specially
designed reading and discussion
groups and also provide materials
to improve literacy. The high illiteracy
rate also explains the need
for recreational programming and
pet therapy.
As one might guess, the kinds of
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books a prison librarian orders are
a little different. Inmates tend to
enjoy Westerns, adventures and
thrillers. They also like poetry
books from which they glean
romantic phrases to include to letters
to their wives and girlfriends,
Walling said.
Inmates also prefer paperbacks.
"I think hardback books remind
them of school, which was a nega
uve experience ior mosi, sne saiu.
"Paperbacks are less ihreatening
and easier to carry around."
Books generally are not censored,
though information on how
to escape or make weapons would
not be allowed in the library. The
prison system also includes legal
collections, where inmates have
access to law books and materials.
Most libraries also have typewriters
to ease legal correspondence.
Prison libraries are a haven for
inmates, and they rarely cause disturbances,
Walling said. Guards are
on hand, however, to ward off
potential problems.
"One reason inmates create trouble
in prison is that they have a lot
of time on their hands," Walling
said. "Going to the library occupies
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librarians in South Carolina are
almost always women. According
to Walling, however, becoming a
prison librarian requires no special
personality.
"It does help if you like, or at
least can tolerate, noise and animals,"
she said. "You also need to
become street-smart and suspicious,
but not scared, and you need to
become sensitized to the kinds of
problems inmates face and enjoy
helping and teaching them."
Walling, who has cerebral palsy
and was briefly instutionalized herself
during tut evaluation for rehabilitation
potential, has a special
empathy for those who are disabled
or institutionalized.
"Institutional life can be
extremely boring, and books can
provide an escape, however temporary,
from the surroundings," she
said.
In addition, the potential for
learning that libraries and librarians
provide may help inmates become L
successful citizens once they are
released, Walling said.
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