BOOKS NOT BARS

A panel discussion on public libraries and their responsibility

to serve patrons and their families who are or have been

incarcerated.

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

SALONS 11 & 12

Web Blog - Serving Children Whose Parents are Incarcerated

http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2013/01/serving-children-whose-parents-are-incarcerated-2/

The Whole Library Handbook 5 -

Chapter 6

Organizations for Formerly Incarcerated People - NYPL

http://www.nypl.org/help/community-outreach/correctional-services/other-orgs

Free Services and Programs for Ex-Offenders – Brooklyn Public

Library

http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/explore-topic/employment-and-

training/free-services-and-programs-ex-offenders

Marybeth will be speaking again

at the event below:

Mr. Higgins began his career in 2006 as an IMLS funded trainee at the Brooklyn Public Library. He received

his Masters of Library Science from the Pratt Institute and a BA in British Literature from Hunter College. He lives

with his wife and two children in Red Hook Brooklyn.

Nick Higgins is the Director of Outreach Services at Brooklyn Public

Library. He directs a unique suite of services for BPL including the Services for Older Adults department, Correctional Services, Immigrant Services, and Homeless Outreach. From 2009 to 2013 he oversaw the New York Public Library Correctional Services department increasing direct Library engagement with inmates in regional jails and prisons from 4,000 individuals per year to 12,000.

In 2009, as a Laura Bush 21st Century Museum and Library Science Scholarship recipient, she

added another dimension and new "fire" to her career by attending St. John's University and receiving her MS in Library and Information Science. Little did she realize that she would be creating a jail school library. She is an advocate for her students at the jail, for the incarcerated and for their families.

She has just recently authored her first book, Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time.

She serves on the Nassau Library Outreach Services Advisory Council as a representative of the School Program for Incarcerated Youth at the Nassau County Correctional Facility in East Meadow, New York. Recently, she became a regular blog contributor to Public Librarian online where she has posted several articles.

Marybeth is married, has three grown children, two cats and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Marybeth Zeman has always been passionate

about books and writing--her own and her

students. She has been a teacher for almost 30

years, a high school ESL teacher, a college

writing instructor and presently, a counselor at

a school program in a jail.