In prison, there are two things to do for healthy
recreation: pump iron or
read. As a result, the library at Eastern New York
Correctional Facility is
filled with enormous men looking for books. They kill time
in the reading
room, leafing through magazines or newspapers while they
wait to pick out a
book. They watch a video. By threes, they may browse in
the cramped stacks
among the 11,000 titles. Shoulders and heads bob silently
over the
chest-high rows.
So begins the article The
Great Escape, by Holbrook Sample, originally published
in City Limits, and republished in Library Juice this past
week. It’s a longie but very interesting reading touching
on what motivates librarians to be librarians.
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