Prime Focus: US libraries on the frontlines of homelessness
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee reports on libraries being on the frontlines of the increasing homelessness crisis across the U.S. and how librarians are learning techniques to help.
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Libraries are a national treasure. I hope they receive all the support they need.
Eh, nah. Just more govt entities where the workers feel entitled to taxpayer money.
Time to offload em. They're trash.
I have always loved libraries.They have been a safe place for me
Bless these wonderful people occupying various positions within the libraries across the U.S. I've been in a homeless situation before and have been so blessed by walking in the doors of my local libraries. These places are sanctuaries for so many people. I'm deeply grateful.🙏♥💐
God bless this woman.
Librarians are information professionals. They shouldn't have to be social workers, emergency responders, babysitters, therapists, and security guards all rolled into one. They need to be librarians.
The fact that libraries are at the frontlines of homelessness is an indication that all other institutions have crumbled.
Some librarians love helping people because their not selfish
@@Jwa-fo6nb Yeah... help people find, use and create information. They have advanced degrees dedicated to just that.
They are NOT TRAINED to be social workers, first responders, therapists or security guards. They are trained to be information professionals. The more they have to do the jobs other professionals should be doing, the less time and energy they have to be information professionals.
@@modernorpheus go be selfish and cry by yourself
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I love how they profile the 5% of homeless people who behave in a respectable manner who absolutely should be free to use the library. This is not the reality whatsoever for anyone who visits a library in a large city.
You can’t prioritize everyone. In recent years it’s become very clear to me that me and my children are an afterthought. The libraries where I live care more about being a homeless shelter.
As a library worker who has taken all of Ryan Dowd's training at least once - he ROCKS! His commonsense, kind approach has been game-changing for me and our entire staff!
When a book is checked out does thay save a library
Bless you donna such a inspiration
"Sanctuary for silence"
Someone hasn't been around a library recently.
😆 Sure hasn't been to mine.
It has been an adjustment for everybody as libraries change to meet the actual needs of the people who use them. And -- since I love silence it almost makes me sad to say this -- silence is not top of the priority list for 95% of the people who walk through the doors.
God bless you doanna
That was awesome. I think I need to look into volunteering at the library.
It's beautiful to help people
Love how these women librarians are helping people when the people who suppose to help them aren't doing their jobs. They are my inspiration to achieve in my career
This period of history should NEVER be forgotten! There should never be another homeless person in America after this horrific period of living under a crap government whose only interest is profit for a small group of people and mass suffering for everyone else.
Unless they're a migrant, no one cares
That's not so much a period of history so much as it is the history of the US Capitalist Democracy. Money determines if you live a longer life, get life saving treatments, have shelter and regular medical care and always having a net. For the rich, their riches are supported by bailouts because if Wall Street is poor, we all are (supposedly.) One bank bailout prevents another bank bailout. Corporate welfare programs are the biggest giveaways our country has to offer. No one ever told a banker selling sub prime mortgages to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Yet if you lived in the house foreclosed upon because their shady deals, you lost everything. CEO's like that monster from Lehman brothers pocketed money and is now the CEO elsewhere on Wall Street. Victims of their predatory mortgage games ended up homeless with no safety net but behold, a library. Although the US economy was founded on unpaid workers (slaves) to make money without having to pay a worker, it has continued these practices by loopholes: rolling back child labor, getting immigrant workers to do jobs that no one else wants, sans union or decent pay, and now since 'the pandemic is over' food assistance has been gutted despite inflation and I saw a piece about a mile long strech of road in eastern Kentucky where people were all lined up for the foodbank. I think some of us are more attune to wealth inequality now because some of us have stopped believing that we deserve to live crappier lives than the rich. Or at the very least, a corporation should not have more rights than a human being.
Stop blaming capitalism, we don't have that. This is socialism.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 Go live in Northern Europe for more than 6 months then come back and say that.
@@jaybreese7416 your comment made no sense
I'm homeless and the library is one of the few places to go where you're not forced to spend money
Congratulations Ryan! As always, wonderful job.
I am glad I watched this today, it helped me be more empathetic. There by the grace of God go I.
Here in Thailand (Chiang Mai), homeless people also hang out a lot at public libraries...mostly the outside garden area, and the cleaner and more respectable ones come inside. The management at the Public Library was friendly to them in the past, but not the management at the National Library, who are unfriendly even to budget tourists who use the computers and read the newspapers there like I used to do a few years ago. They like to keep their library only for Thais and leave out other ethnic groups, like the Shan and hill tribe people. Many of these homeless people, mostly older men, actually like to read books, and are more likely to read than other Thais, simply because they don't have smartphones, and also because they don't have phones, they also haven't lost their social skills to have conversations! Not only at the library, but even when they are sitting outside at the river benches and temple benches, I often see them reading books!
But it's a shock for me, as, in the past, libraries in less developed countries have generally been associated with high-class, educated people. Libraries aren't the only place for them here, though; they also hang out at air-con shopping malls and in the city's over 100 Buddhist temples, which have free showers and food. I think it's great that the staff of some libraries in the U.S. are getting training to deal with them; we don't have anything like that here! And here you can check a normal size bag in the front, but you can't bring a lot of stuff to the library!
I should have been a librarian.
This is similar for the Central Library of downtown Atlanta.
Exact reason why I avoid public libraries like the plague.
A place of refuge ✊🏼 Respect to all Librarians and the unhoused there but for the grace of…
Informative, eye opening!
We have this where I am in Cincinnati Oh. It's really sad to see this in a society where we have options to change things.
If this is PR for public libraries, it is a bad one! Libraries should not be a haven for the homeless and addicts. It should be a safe space for kids, families and people who want to learn, read and work. Tax payers deserve better!😒
Ryon is a superstar!
Lord✝️ Jesus have mercy🙏
Thanks for saying it's free, now we'll have to fix that too, like we fixed rent being affordable. Luckily for now my one bedroom apartment only gets about 1/2 income.
Hello America, how come we tolerate homelessness?? How come we tolerate seeing children, young people, and adults homeless??
Start charging a few dollars for adults. Tax payers pay for the library. Homeless people do not pay taxes. How weird
Why??? Example, Canada’s current(?) citizenship and integration test does not reveal anything distinctive about the particularities of the nation (eliminating questions about ordinary symbols such as the flag or national anthem, and history) or a distinct philosophy of integration (see Michalowski 2009 for a systematic analysis; also Joppke 2008). (History questions are geared towards capturing the present-day of the country), so for migration assimilation; In its place, citizenship requires achieving a social cohesion driven by achieving active, participatory, and productive obedient individuals; even at all and any price needed including eliminating your life. The current citizenship and integration tests do not reveal anything distinctive about the particularities of the nation (eliminating questions about ordinary symbols such as the flag or national anthem) or a distinct philosophy of integration (see Michalowski 2009 for a systematic analysis; also Joppke 2008). The history questions are in the main geared towards capturing the present-day of the country
In the case of immigrant groups, for example, we find political parties create (funded) radical disparity ideology groups through mosque organizations, and social minority community associations, that operate at local levels but also assume transnational forms by bridging diverse public spaces. An example of this is the Alevite groups (a subsect of Islam), organized both in Turkey and Germany. In examining borrowed models from their Countries, like from the education system, they have raised demands for the recognition of denominational schools in Turkey, which do not have a legal standing in the Turkish educational system. In the same vein, the much-debated Islamic foulard issue in Europe has traversed the realms of local, national, and transnational jurisdictions - from local educational authorities to the European Court of Human Rights.
When we help, they must at least pick up their own trash.
It's nice that some librarians want to help but this isn't what libraries should have to do or taxpayers should have to pay for. I pay for libraries (and public housing) but basically can't use libraries because they're homeless shelters. After 6 years there, that dude is using the library for services, not to find a job.
Library services are what people go to the library for.
How these people would react after opening boarder provide more homeless non English speakers come to their space?
Library is not for homeless place, I am sure.
End of market frank ford line
So now law abiding and descent citizens cannot use the public library ….
Their taxes pay for the addicts to abuse it
A massive portion of the homeless are veterans and almost all of them are good people without tools. Why don't you come in one day and see what we're dealing with? Why don't you help?
I swear, no one hates America more than you "patriots."
It’s not against the law to be homeless Kevin. And honestly, that’s the point. Citizens narrowing their focus (out of greed or fatigue) creating *more homelessness and crime and disunity. Some people see a problem and blame the victims because it comforts them and allows them to ignore it. Solving nothing. Others feel human compassion and expect those bestowed with power to use it accordingly. To refine the systems under them to produce better results.
@@evangreen3080 - Most of them have made that decision …. Or a lot of bad decisions that put them their.
Why? Are you afraid the big, bad homeless bag-lady will get you? Grow up.
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Public libraries in the U.S. should be open 24/7/365/ so that homeless Americans always have some shelter. Other countries have libraries open 24 hours each day - why not the U.S.? Isn't the U.S. supposed to be the greatest country in the world? Or just more propaganda?
I have worked in the public library system in Kentucky for the past 15 years - for at least 10 of those years my colleagues and I have been underpaid for what we do. Libraries should not be open 24/7/365 - @AlphaLady777, would you like to work in a place where you are subjected to harassment, verbal abuse and fear for your own personal safety, because if you do, come work for your public library system.
24 hours? So they can sex traffic and shoot up all night?
It's propaganda. Unfortunately that hasn't made the news around the world and they'll have to travel here to find out the truth.
@@Lynie01This. I just quit working for a public library system in a major city. My first two days on the job, I was battered three times by the same homeless patron. Cops were called, and were utterly useless. The rest of my time there had its ups and downs. One of our regular homeless patrons considers the library his living room. He spends all day every day sitting at public terminals playing computer games. I watched him for over a year, and to this day he is no closer to being off the streets than when I first saw him.
On one of my last days, a homeless man came to my reference desk to complain that he couldn’t get logged into the Roblox server, when another homeless was playing Fortnight. Seriously, this has what to do with getting off the streets?
I could go on with the examples. Every day we had to deal with homeless threatening people, attacking people, doing drugs, drinking, surfing porn, screaming at the children’s story hour, crapping in the urinals, deliberately clogging toilets, vandalizing property, stealing, and on and on and on. One threw a chair off a second floor mezzanine into the public lobby below. Fortunately nobody was hurt. None of which has anything to do with regaining normalcy in their lives.
I would love to help if I thought I was actually helping. I’m just not convinced libraries are actually accomplishing that end. What a waste.
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Anyone reading this, if you haven't repented yet, please REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.
Jesus didn't have any mercy on any of these unfortunate people. Yet these people still foolishly believe that he will help them. Your religion is a blight on humanity.
@Jay Breese
You MUST be a devil's agent, promoting the devil's agenda against the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to save the souls of people who are LOST IN THE DARKNESS OF THE DEVIL!! REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. Lord have mercy on you🙏
Jesus has mercy on people and saves all who call upon Him in truth to be saved: "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13 (KJV)
I LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU TO DEATH, LITERALLY, O LORD MY GOD, JESUS CHRIST✝️
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU FIRST LOVED ME. 1 JOHN 4:19.
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR LOVING ME,
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR SAVING ME,
HAIL JESUS!!!!!!! CELEBRATE AND GLORIFY JESUS EVERY DAY AND FOREVER MORE, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 (KJV)
If you don't REPENT, you will perish in hell/lake of fire🔥
JESUS is NOT willing that you perish, but that you come to REPENTANCE.
Call upon JESUS, and He will SAVE you: "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13 (KJV)
Lord help you🙏
I won't read any message you send me again, and so I won't respond because I know it will be full of LIES AND FOOLISHNESS from your father, the devil!!
You don't have to be a child of the devil!!
You have a CHOICE! You can call upon Jesus in TRUTH, and Jesus will SURELY SAVE you, and you will also become His child and He will He will help you in all your problems in life and bless you, AND you will inherit ETERNAL LIFE. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.
I LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU TO DEATH, LITERALLY, O MY HOLY FATHER AND MY LORD GOD IN HEAVEN WITH ALL MY HEART, AND WITH ALL MY SOUL, AND WITH ALL MY MIND, AND WITH ALL MY STRENGTH. AND I LOVE MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU FIRST LOVED ME. 1 JOHN 4:19.
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR LOVING ME,
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR SAVING ME,
HAIL JESUS!!!!!!! CELEBRATE AND GLORIFY JESUS EVERY DAY AND FOREVER MORE, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! AMEN.
Bye,
Lord have mercy on you🙏
Peace.
@@proviah4770 What's loving about 2 countries who worship the same deity killing each other claiming that Jesus is on their side. No, I was forced indoctrinated with your crackpot religion way too much in my youth and Christianity is evil and has every believer fooled.
don't call them libraries, call them homeless shelters...