What makes a person a library user? Is it the love of books? Is it the love of information and knowledge? Is it love for the latest gossip?  Is it the need to hear the latest music? Who can really say?  But the truth of the matter is all library users have one thing in common, the willingness to walk in the door and maybe just maybe discover something great.  Library users in prison are the same as those that walk into the libraries on the streets, they have the same concerns, the same needs, and the same desires as “Joe the plummer”.  Some are patient, some are lovers of books and information, some are rude, some rip the crossword out of the newspaper, but all of them come to the library because they want to walk through the door. 

Prison library users walk in the door because they want to, not because they have to or are told they must and that is what being a library user is all about.  So no I don’t treat them any different then I would if I was working in a public library; I treat them with respect and for the most part I get respect back.

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