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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really get it... it seems like very different needs than libraries were designed for or librarians have the skill set for (though I know they try their best). My husband had to work with the librarian to call the police in a homeless creeper in the kids section the other day (not saying they all are, but it's two very different populations in a small space). The only solution I can think of is to offer a homeless service station next door. Warming station, social worker,coffee donuts, paper, computer bank, and bathroom to groom in. Thoughts?[/quote]

Alas, probably won't help.[b] The Reston library is[i] right next door [/i]to a homeless shelter.[/b] Nevertheless, they come into the library, watch porn on the computers, wash themselves in the restroom (which pretty much makes it unusable for normal people, especially children, I'd never send DS in there), periodically expose themselves to women, and generally stink up the place.[/quote]

Stopped going there...can't use the restroom, run a gauntlet of lounging smoking groups to get in.  Nowhere to sit  - it's the homeless shelter clubhouse.  Years ago-decades + used to drop kids off there who met others for study/HW.

Also RTC Balduccis is a hangout and Harris Teeter.  Fairfax County is putting a park next to the library.  Who will be able to use it?  
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Oh, please. I go there weekly with my 4-year-old and have for years. Never encountered any problems. The restrooms are fine, plenty of seating, I’ve never encountered any suspicious adults in the children’s area. Never smelled a thing, for goodness sake. Never seen anyone bothered or harassed.

There are usually several people sitting out front, and sometimes a few are smoking, although not near the entrance. Once an obviously mentally ill man was talking to himself outside. Which happens everywhere. That’s it. Some of you are just appalled that the homeless have the gall to be VISIBLE to TAXPAYERS. [/quote]

Or to stab women to death. Or to stab a man to death on bridge. The problem with the mentally ill is they are unpredictable.[/quote]

...and this has what to do with library access? [/quote]

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