Libraries: open to all but at a price

Updated November 3 2016 - 9:05pm, first published 8:00pm

We have heard it about paramedics and police offices and even about emergency ward staff but the latest concerning wave of unprovoked public violence seems to have overflowed toward librarians. They are not alone among council workers to experience this troubling growth in verbal and physical threats, with meals on wheels and home care workers also listed, but there is a understandable indignation that the custodians of public information, modest bibliophiles and gregarious facilitators, should be its victims.

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