Jill Leovy, of the LA Times, profiles the secuity staff at Los Angeles
Central Library in “By the Book, With Footnotes” (Aug. 13, 2006).

Like most mainstream reporting on homeless people in libraries, the
article does not mention if the library is working in any capacity with
local social-service agencies or advocating for day-shelter funding.

One photo caption with the online article is particularly ironic: “Keeping
up appearances is part of the unwritten code that lets different people
mix comfortably in the library.”

For more on this and other poverty-related issues, visit:

www.hhptf.org

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John Gehner, Coordinator
Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force (HHPTF)
Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)
of the American Library Association (ALA)
jgehner at hhptf.org
www.hhptf.org
www.libry.org/srrt