Monday, April 02, 2007

Libraries and the Homeless

Rhonda Machlan of our staff recently directed me to an article by Chip Ward, a recently-retired assistant director at Salt Lake City Public Library. Chip has a sobering post on serving the chronically homeless population in his library:


http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=180836

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sobering, indeed. Thank you for the heads up on this. I've sent the link along to my public library directors here in the LA area. I'm sure they can all relate.

LibVibe said...

I interviewed Ward about the incredibly trenchant article. Hear his comments on the April 5th edition of LibVibe: the library newscast. It's the second story, about two minutes in. -M!