How should users of a library interact with the Administration
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| The front door of Central branch at 828 I. Street, Sacramento. |
Many of the users are homeless, as is well known within the building at
828 I Street in Sacramento.
There was a time -- a year or two ago -- when it seemed that the administration at Central was endeavoring to get rid of homeless people who utilized the library branch. Indeed, it's very possible that being rid of homeless people at Central remains as a goal of Top Administrators of SPL.
A very significant portion of the furniture on the 3rd Floor disappeared during that long-ago December, while rather-useless large pieces of wooden furniture that contained index-card files were put in place on the floor.
It remains the case, today, that big, non-purposeful index-card files fill a significant portion of the space on the 3rd Floor. I should add that for us tall persons, the index-card files DO have a purpose: We can sort through our stuff using the top of the file furniture.
Other things have happened since the carrels that were nicely aligned on the north and west "walls with windows" on the floor were removed. A teen area came into being for a significant portion of the floor. This "Teen Area" has been little utilized by the folks it was created for. I think the problem is that it doesn't have enough features to attract teenage library users. It has the same-old, same-old dull wooden furniture that is used through-out the library and has nothing in the way of pictures and comfortable furniture to interest teens to congregate in the area to converse and have a good time with one other.
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