[Michlib-l] Question: public library reference in Michigan prisons

[Jean Fellows]

We'd certaly engage in this if we had a corrections facility in
our community--Ionia is the nearest.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:07 AM Meghan McGowan via Michlib-l <
michlib-l at mcls.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Happy fall everyone! My colleague and I are working on a project about
> reference services in Michigan prisons and we are hoping to get a feel for
> what current partnerships exist between public libraries and prison
> libraries. We are curious if you or your system has had success in forming
> a partnership to formally provide services to a prison in Michigan or if
> you've been able to provide reference services via answer letters, etc?
>
> If not presently, has this been successful in the past? If you've tried
> and not been successful, could you briefly share what the barriers have
> been?
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
> Meghan McGowan
>
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Jean Fellows
(she/hers)
Programming Coordinator
Grand Ledge Area District Library
131 E. Jefferson St.,
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
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*The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral,
traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires
Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples land ceded in the 1819
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