Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Customer to Customer Outreach

While many of our customers may engage in what we consider inappropriate outreach to each other, here's one with a really good ending. Bravo!

RA Run Down via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 7/5/09

High Powered Lawyer and Homeless Men Forge a Bond Through Book ClubThis is a heartwarming story of a lawyer who stopped to chat with a homeless man every day until they came up with the idea of forming a book group.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Great Resources for librarians

We use the Internet Public Library. We use the Librarian's Internet Index. We use a lot of great online resources. I've found some of the libraryland feeds I monitor to be treasure troves.

Here's a good example. It does not give legal advice, but it does give public libraries or anyone in a public area a good research starting place:


Blog Answers Legal Reference Questions Related to Homelessness
via PLA Blog by Kathleen Hughes on 5/12/08