Prison Libraries Grp

🎉🎉🎉 Exciting news! This year we're celebrating 25 years of promoting reading and reading groups in prison. #PRG25Years #PRG25thAnniversary #25YearsOfConnection #TransformingLivesThroughReading

Prison Libraries training day coming soon! Our focus this year will be on how prison libraries can support literacy. 8th of November in Manchester LITERACY IN PRISON - UNLOCKING READING IN THE PRISON LIBRARY Watch this space for more information….

Very pleased that a prison library has won the Libraries Connected Reading Award - well done to Liz and Tracy, Prison Library Assistants at HMP Swaleside. Well deserved 👏🏻

Just starting our Prison Libraries Group training day with a presentation on Health Literacy from Health Education England

"Banning books give us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight." @BannedBooksWeek

This letter from a learner at @HMPErlestoke made us tear up this week. From not being able to read, to completing all 5 Turning Pages manuals, to writing a letter about their experience. I think they put it perfectly: “learning to read and write will open up the world to you.”

Call out to all who work in libraries, archives, records, information or knowledge management to complete the Workforce Mapping Survey. Share the link to support the sector. Deadline 9th September @ARAUK_IE @LGAcomms cilip.org.uk/general/custom…

Prison librarians in England - have your say on the future of the adult prison education service. @MoJGovUK & @hmpps seek your feedback to help shape future library services in adult prisons. @PrisonLibraries Deadline to respond: 31 July contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a3b2967…"

'Why more authors should be sent to prison'--great piece in @StrongWordsMag @manwithbooks @HMPErlestoke @HMPDownview @AndyWPhilosophy @PrisonLibraries #BooksforFirstNighters. Thank you for all your brilliant support.

Reflecting on the past week’s prison library events and so grateful to all of the library staff who shared their experiences and everyone who came along to learn more about the profession. Lots of ideas suggested for future engagement, watch this space! #PrisonLibrariesUU22

Getting ready to kick off today’s prison library symposium! Excited to have so many joining us from across the world to learn more about prison library services #PrisonLibraries22UU

Work in prison libraries or with young offenders? #HealthLiteracy may be a skills set you can support. Thank you to @SueK4H and @JoanneStemp for sharing techniques with prison librarians. @PrisonLibraries insidetime.org/your-health-ho…

Congrats to @giveabookorg @Shannon_Trust for their mention in this blog and podcast about books for prisoners. Well worth a listen, a read and a share! 🎧 📚💙 @HubBroadast thehubcast.co.uk/post/books-for…

"It explained real life situations, the same thing happened to me. Just lucky I never lost my life." Powerful #feedbackfriday from Witness by @brixtonbard the #quickread from @readingagency we sent out for #WorldBookNight. Have you read it?

Please RT & share with anyone working in a library who might be interested in online p/t study for a professional librarianship qualification #PGDipMSc #LibraryInfoMgmt #DigitalLearning #InfoWebinar #HowToApply @UlsterEducation

@NickPoole1 @DrDavidMcMenemy @wylie_alan @CILIPinfo We are all very saddened by her sudden death, and will miss her wise leadership. Her legacy will live on in the brilliant work she did for Prison Libraries.

@DrDavidMcMenemy @wylie_alan @PrisonLibraries @CILIPinfo She really was. I have been privileged to work with a lot of great people in my time @CILIPinfo, but she really was one of the best. A wise head and a constant champion. Her passing is a great loss to our profession.

Shocked & saddened to receive news of the passing of Sue Wilkinson, an outstanding #librarian, #infopro and former Chair of our @PrisonLibraries Group. She was a huge part of our @CILIPinfo community & a constant champion of #libraries and #literacy. She will be greatly missed.

@NickPoole1 Love this!

Woke up this morning to discover that this had happened. Pleased to have been able to share the indomitable spirit of our Ukrainian colleagues & to tap into a fundamental worldwide belief in the badassery of #librarians. #WeAreCILIP

A huge thank you to The Other Side of Hope, a literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants, for their generous donation to our prison libraries. @giveabookorg 💙 othersideofhope.com/index.html

In praise of PRG #volunteers – a great piece on the Serco news website by wonderful volunteer Maggie at @HMPThameside with some warm words from librarian @neil_barclay as well ‘Maggie does a fantastic job…and we are proud to be working with PRG.’ serco.com/uk/sector-expe…

Many people find ways of coping without being able to read, and hide it due to feelings of shame or embarrassment, but being unable to read is more common than you think. It's never too late to learn #nobodyleftoutoflearning #jaybladeslearningtoreadat51