I have always loved libraries.They have been a safe place for me

Libraries are a national treasure. I hope they receive all the support they need.

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.🙏♥💐

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.

A place of refuge ✊🏼 Respect to all Librarians and the unhoused there but for the grace of…

God bless this woman.

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!

"Sanctuary for silence" Someone hasn't been around a library recently.

Bless you donna such a inspiration

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

I'm homeless and the library is one of the few places to go where you're not forced to spend money

That was awesome. I think I need to look into volunteering at the library.

When I a child my local library was a magical place of discovery where I fell in love with reading and learning. Today our public libraries are cesspools full of addicts, panhandlers, and the mentally ill where the true purpose of a public library has been trashed. Amid all the sympathy for bums how about some concern for the working poor who used to rely on public libraries to enrich their lives and are now afraid to let their children go there?

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.

God bless you doanna

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 am glad I watched this today, it helped me be more empathetic. There by the grace of God go I.

Congratulations Ryan! As always, wonderful job.

This is similar for the Central Library of downtown Atlanta.

I should have been a librarian.

Informative, eye opening!

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!😒

Exact reason why I avoid public libraries like the plague.

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.

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??

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.

Start charging a few dollars for adults. Tax payers pay for the library. Homeless people do not pay taxes. How weird

End of market frank ford line

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.

When we help, they must at least pick up their own trash.

69 Th st stop

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.

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?

Womp Womp

So now law abiding and descent citizens cannot use the public library ….

Anyone reading this, if you haven't repented yet, please REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.

don't call them libraries, call them homeless shelters...