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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/

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Rikers Public Memory Project – Friday April 25th

  • Posted by Ian McDermott on April 24, 2025 at 12:50 pm

    I’m sharing the event that my colleague Thomas Cleary, Institutional Archivist, is involved with. It’s an in-person event at LaGuardia and looks excellent.
    All best, Ian McDermott

    Hi All,

     

    As part of the Oral History Seminar (with the final funding coming from the College) we would like to invite everyone to attend a presentation by Andrea Nelson from the Rikers Public Memory Project, Friday April 25th, 10:30am-12pm in E-501.

     

    Andrea Nelson will introduce the Rikers Public Memory Project (RPMP), a community archive and oral history project that collects and makes visible the stories of the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City. Contributors to RPMP are those who have been directly-impacted by Rikers – people who have been detained in one of the jails or people who have supported detained loved ones. Andrea will share contributions from RPMP’s oral history program, explain the project’s methods for recording oral histories, and discuss why oral history is a powerful framework for documenting stories of incarceration.

     

    Thank you

    Thomas

     

     

    Thomas Cleary

    Archivist/Librarian – Assistant Professor

    Library Department

    https://archives.laguardia.edu/

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