Written by Erica MacCreaigh
On a very frosty evening, January 26, nine intrepid ALA Midwinter attendees braved the cold — and perhaps some trepidation at the thought of razor wire, locked gates, and Erica’s driving — to tour the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility and library.
Diana Reese, Erica MacCreaigh, and Lt. Gary Dolan were joined by academic, school, and public librarians, a corrections librarian, and an MLIS student for a two-hour tour of DWCF’s programs and housing – including the rehabilitative Therapeutic Community unit and the lively minimum security dog training unit –which culminated in a visit to the facility library. Continue reading ‘ALA Midwinter librarians “go directly to prison!”’
ATTENTION ALL COLORADO LIBRARIES
Here’s a fabulous chance to strut your library’s stuff at ALA Midwinter!
The Colorado Association of Libraries and Denver Public Library are cosponsoring a booth at ALA Midwinter and will be running a continual slide show featuring you. Any Colorado library, library association or service group is welcome to submit content for a slide. The slide show will be archived online, making it available for attendees after the conference and for anyone that wants to find out why Colorado libraries are so great!
The Rules:
- No more than two images (subject to resizing and formatting)
- 15 words of text
- One URL
- One logo
Our editor, Megan Kinney, will assemble your elements into a slick looking slide to go into the presentation that will be rolling in our ALA MW booth.
By December 1, email your images (two images, one logo) as attachments and in the body of the email, include your 15-word text and url to: mkinney@denverlibrary.org with the Subject: ALAMW Slide – Your Library Name
This effort organized and supported by CLiC, CAL, DPL and ALA Councilor Shelley Walchak.
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