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LACUNY Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable

The Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable provides a forum for librarians who support, or are interested in supporting, library services for incarcerated people to discuss current issues, broaden their understanding, and raise awareness of information barriers within the carceral system. The Roundtable connects CUNY librarians with other librarian-led groups, such as Prison Library Support Network, that provide direct services to incarcerated people, and serves as a resource for CUNY groups such as the UFS Committee on Higher Education in the Prisons and those working in prison education programs. https://lacunysips.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Admins:

Prison Library Support Network Fundraiser on Sunday, November 3

  • PLSN’s 2nd fundraiser event will be next Sunday, November 3rd! Register now to explore Prospect Park’s waterways, followed by drinks and raffle prize drawings at Lunita Loft!. [Rachel Jones will be attending FYI if anyone from LACUNY is interested in joining!]

    If you aren’t able to attend the Prospect Park walk, you can still join us at the Loft party afterwards! We’ll spend time together drinking some hot cocoa and other beverages, as well as raffling off our amazing prizes donated from PLSN’s community! Some of those prizes include:

    • 1 initial acupuncture session with Open Care Community
    • 1 printmaking workshop (for up to 5 people)
    • 1 abolitionist pin pack
    • 4 tickets to the American Museum of Natural history
    • 2 new cookbooks (Korean American and The Woks of Life!)
    • 1 “Fudgie the Whale” Signature Carvel cake
    • 1 guided tour of the Schwartzman Building (the NYPL branch with the lions!)
    • 1 abolitionist children’s book set
    • Chapbooks
    • Artwork
    • Gift Cards
    • More amazing prizes TBA!

    If you’re local to NYC and want to just enter the raffle, you can do so at the same registration link. We’ve listed below our suggested donations for this fundraiser event– as a reminder, for every $1 we raise, we unlock $5 in matching funds!

    **Suggested Donations + Register Here**

    -Walking Tour: $20 (incl. 1 raffle ticket, additional tix available for $3)

    – Raffle entry only: $5 for 1 ticket (additional tix available for $3)

    PayPal: http://paypal.me/plsnnyc
    Venmo: mha_plsn
    Zelle: [email protected]

    Thanks to the amazing support of our community, we’ve already raised $5,934 (just $66 away from $6,000!) from peer-to-peer donations, meaning we’re more than a third of the way to reaching our goal of $15,000 by Dec 31. With our 5x matching funds opportunity, this means that we’ve collectively raised, getting us that much closer to our maximum fundraising goal of $90,000. Thank you so much everyone!!

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