[Publib] Article

[Suzanne Colligan]

Greetings,
This is interesting, forgive any duplication. The author is the former 
Assistant Director of the Salt Lake City Public Library.

America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters
http://www.alternet.org/story/50023/
A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de 
facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are 
increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally 
disturbed.


Suzanne Colligan
Reference Librarian
Humanities & Social Sciences Dept.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Central
1 Lafayette Sq.
Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 858-7117
colligans at buffalolib.org