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Jeanie Austin, Ph.D. (they/them/theirs)

Jail & Reentry Services Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, California, United States

Jeanie Austin earned their PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their research interests and activities include the provision of library services to people in juvenile detentions, jails, and prisons.

Jeanie is a Jail and Reentry Services librarian with San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), and is co-PI on SFPL’s “Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People” project, which is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Jeanie Austin's book, Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access, covers the history of library services inside, philosophical approaches to library services for incarcerated people, and real world examples of library and information programming in carceral facilities. It advocates for librarians to consider incarcerated people as part of the public served by libraries. It also critically interrogates the role of technologies within carceral facilities, with emphasis on the data gathering and algorithmic surveillance functions of these technologies.

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