Library Stuff » San Francisco http://www.librarystuff.net The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 San Fran library hires social worker for homeless http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/22/san-fran-library-hires-social-worker-for-homeless/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/22/san-fran-library-hires-social-worker-for-homeless/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:21 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=9249 AP – “Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights. Like many homeless public library patrons, all Banks wants is a clean, safe place to sit in peace. He doesn’t want to talk to anyone. He doesn’t want anyone to talk to him. But the day he decides he wants help, he knows what to do: ask for the social worker.

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]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/11/08/great-cities-need-libraries-now-more-than-ever/feed/ 0 Waiver of San Francisco library fee lures lax back to the stacks http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/06/28/waiver-of-san-francisco-library-fee-lures-lax-back-to-the-stacks/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/06/28/waiver-of-san-francisco-library-fee-lures-lax-back-to-the-stacks/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:36:16 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/06/28/waiver-of-san-francisco-library-fee-lures-lax-back-to-the-stacks/ AP – “Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger may have the best excuse for overdue library books; his got rather damp following a spectacular jet landing in the Hudson River. But people from all over the San Francisco Bay area came up with some decent, or at least inventive, explanations for their tardy tomes under a recent amnesty program aimed at luring the lax back to the stacks.”

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Wasn’t this against the law anyway?

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