1 – Long before the building opens, a crowd begins to gather.
2 – As the doors swing open, he mutters: “This is my sanctuary.”
3 – People frequently use the… restrooms to bathe (stripping down and using wads of wet toilet paper) or to get their latest drug fix.
4- Occasionally, the bathroom ceiling is speckled with the blood of a careless heroin user who struck a vein.
Any ideas?
If you said the Multnomah Public Library in Portland you are correct.
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger’s piece in the Oregonian Library a refuge for homeless is the latest contribution to the budding genre “Social Services and the Library.”
From the homeless street youth to social service workers to librarians Sulzberger does a good, thorough job presenting the issue from a variety of viewpoints.
Previous Book Patrol post Library Asylum
Chip Ward’s Op-ed piece What They didn’t Teach Us in Library School