[Bookstoprisoners] Monday, downtown

[Jay Schubert]

Esther,

[ adding jail library listserv to email chain ]

Thanks for the report and for your extra efforts at the jail library!  In
the future if a situation like this arises, please don't feel obligated to
just tough it out and stay there all night as a result of some problem at
the jail.  We should simply be able to say "I'm wasn't planning on staying
past 8:00 tonight, sorry it didn't work out to see all of the inmates
because of the late start" and to then leave.

It's my opinion that as volunteers who provide a free and very valuable
service to the jail, we can expect a level of certainty and should not have
to be placed, or remain in a situation where we aren't totally comfortable
or doesn't meet our basic expectations.  That being said, I think our jail
librarian volunteers understand that working in the jail is a fairly unusual
volunteer environment where we have to follow their rules and know that
unexpected things will happen from time to time which we have to adapt to,
but it's important to keep in mind that it's a two way street and it's not
unreasonable for us to expect that our needs are respected.

Thanks for all you do!
Jay


On 10/31/07, eportnoy at uiuc.edu <eportnoy at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>      Sorry to be a bit late with the reporting...
>      Evelyn and Esther lost count on the number of readers;
> 50 at least.  We got started late (because the guards were
> not ready to take us in), and finished late.  Esther stayed
> until 9:30, and not exactly happy about it.  They waited
> until the end to let the "segregated" guys come, and of
> course these are the folks who most need books, so we didn't
> like to leave without giving them a chance to visit.  Have
> other librarians had this happen?
>      In the box there were some books for Marcella Maggi;
> the guard said she had been moved to the satellite, and
> took the books up there (said she was going up Monday
> evening).  [Hmm, I seem to have Maggi's card here, and will
> try to drop it off before Friday morning.  There are 6 books
> listed, but she may or may not have been able to take the
> 4 she checked out last week.]
> REQUESTS:
> For Savoie -- "Malice" by D. Steele
> For Sparnicht -- anything by Gary Zukov
> For Pickett -- Spanish/English dictionary
> For Blake May, and for Khailies Terry -- anything by __ Zane
>    (May thought one title might be "Skyscrapers")
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