**Apologies for cross-posting to multiple CEA SIGs**


Please take a few minutes to complete The Survey of Library Services to Juveniles in Detention available here: [www.surveymonkey.com]

This is the first comprehensive data collection program specifically for library services to incarcerated youth. Information is being collected on library characteristics such as collections, staffing, and services. Even if your facility does not have a “formal library”, I urge you to please complete the survey anyway: books on shelves in pods are considered “libraries” for this survey, as are bookmobile or other library-service visits from volunteers or others.

Results will be used to improve youth access to books, reading, and library programs.

The American Library Association has selected this project as the pilot platform to collect the very first comprehensive dataset on libraries in detention. The survey is supported by a grant from the American Library Association, with additional support from Drexel University, The Ohio State University Libraries, and the American Correctional Association.

A pdf of the survey can be accessed here: [www.jdclibraries.weebly.com] and is also attached to this post.

Your information is confidential. Only aggregate results will be published. A copy of the survey report can be emailed to you if you wish.

The survey will be open until APRIL 30. If you have any questions, please contact me at the email address below.

Thank you for helping with this important data collection project.

Jennifer Sweeney

Adjunct faculty
College of Information Science & Technology
Drexel University
jensweeney@drexel.edu

Forthcoming: Literacy: A way out for at-risk youth (Libraries Unlimited, 2011).

Correct url to take the survey online:

www.surveymonkey.com/s/wvcftgn

CORRECT URL to take the survey:

www.surveymonkey.com/s/wvcftgn