The Information Needs of Homeless Library Patrons in New York City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gali Yemini–Halevi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Field Study ◽  
York City ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Reference Areas

Field study discovered some information needs of homeless people visiting public libraries in New York. During summer 2006, reference areas of New York public libraries were observed unobtrusively to track homeless patrons’ use of library resources and services. Findings include the use of resources and services by homeless patrons groups.Une étude de terrain révèle certains besoins informationnels des itinérants visitant les bibliothèques publiques de New York. Pendant l’été 2006, les services de références des bibliothèques publiques de New York ont été observés de manière non obstructive afin de connaître les ressources et les services des bibliothèques utilisés par les itinérants. Les résultats incluent l’utilisation des ressources et des services par les groupes d’usagers itinérants. 

Sex and the Revanchist City: Zoning out Pornography in New York

10.1068/d10s ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Adler Papayanis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Sexually Explicit

This paper is an investigation of the social, economic, legal, and cultural factors underlying the move, in New York City, to regulate the sale of pornographic materials through the promulgation of zoning laws. The campaign to zone out pornography, a point of solidarity around which a number of disparate and often hostile interest groups have rallied in order to reclaim public space in the name of community (as though the term itself were transparent and monovocal) is linked to both gentrification and the socioeconomic dynamics underlying the emergence of what Neil Smith has characterized as the revanchist city. ‘Quality of life’ issues stand euphemistically for the domestication and sanitization of an urban landscape whose perceived unruliness is emblematized not only by the presence of large numbers of homeless people, but also by the outré display of sexually explicit imagery associated with XXX-rated businesses. By focusing on the discursive strategies that seek to identify sex shops with so-called ‘secondary impacts’ such as increased crime and decreasing property values, I aim to uncover the social biases and economic motivations that work to shape the urban landscape. I argue that the move to zone out pornography in New York City is imbricated within larger spatial practices that operate both to maximize the productivity of social space and to reproduce the social values of the majority.

Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment of New York City Homeless People

1984 ◽  
Vol 435 (1 First Colloqu) ◽  
pp. 419-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSLYNN GLICKSMAN ◽  
PHILIP W. BRICKNER ◽  
DEARBORN EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Tuberculosis Screening

Kindred Spirits

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

In this chapter, the author shares the wisdom and wit of some extraordinary people, the “kindred spirits,” as well as the lessons he has learned from each of them, such as Tony Butler, who made his home in the tunnels of the New York City subway; the photographer Margaret Morton, who took pictures of the structures where many homeless people live in the tunnels and under the bridges of Manhattan; Ethel Mohamed, a seamstress who began to embroider her memories after the death of her Lebanese husband; Moishe Sacks, a retired baker and the unofficial rabbi of the Intervale Jewish Center in the South Bronx; Kewulay Kamara, from whom he learned about how an ancient mythology can shape a way of life far from its indigenous roots; former medicine show doc Fred Bloodgood; the young subway graffiti writer Skeme; and Mae Noell, from whom he learned about publishing, finding your voice, and sticking to your guns. The author concludes by recounting some wonderful expressions he has picked up from his travels.

“Peek-A-Boo, We See You Too”: Homelessness and visuality in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Goldfischer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
The People ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Yorkers

This paper examines an anti-homeless visual campaign which appeared in New York City in the summer of 2015, in the midst of a resurgence of public concern over the visibility of homeless New Yorkers. The campaign, produced by a police union and titled “Peek-A-Boo, We See You Too” encouraged police officers and allies concerned with a perceived decline in “quality of life” to photograph homeless people on the street, tagging their locations and uploading the photographs to a website. Using the photographs, concurrent discourses, and evidence from surveys conducted by a homeless-led organization, I argue that this campaign represents more than simply an instance of revenge upon and against the homeless. Rather, I suggest that it represents a moment of what philosopher Kristie Dotson calls “epistemic backgrounding” a case in which the people visually displayed at the center of the pictures are “backgrounded” in the knowledge produced off of their images. Connecting this singular campaign with a broader conception of anti-homeless actions, I suggest that we might understand the relationship of visuality and homelessness as one which relies on revanchism for its political logic but produces the simultaneous absence and presence of homeless people through epistemic backgrounding.

Hepatitis C and Substance Use in a Sample of Homeless People in New York City

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rosenblum ◽  
Larry Nuttbrock ◽  
Hunter L. McQuistion ◽  
Stephen Magura ◽  
Herman Joseph
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People

scholarly journals THE NEW YORK CITY URBAN DISPERSION PROGRAM MARCH 2005 FIELD STUDY: TRACER METHODS AND RESULTS.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.B. WATSON ◽  
J. HEISER ◽  
P. KALB ◽  
R.N. DIETZ ◽  
R. WILKE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Field Study ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Dispersion ◽  
Tracer Methods

scholarly journals Sustainability in the first-year experience: Taking library orientation online

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Gina Levitan ◽  
Jennifer Rosenstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
York City ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Enrollment ◽  
Undergraduate Enrollment ◽  
Library Resources

Since 2012, Pace University in New York City has used a library scavenger hunt for the required library orientation for first-year undergraduates. As detailed in a 2013 article in C&RL News, the scavenger hunt replaced library tours and classroom sessions as undergraduate enrollment grew and individual class visits were no longer feasible. As student enrollment continued to increase each year, it became less manageable and more wasteful to conduct a paper scavenger hunt. Each fall, more than 1,000 students collected five separate sheets of paper in order to complete the activity. Not only was this a waste of library resources and an unacceptable environmental impact, it also required a great deal of Jennifer Rosenstein’s time to print the volume of clues and complete the data entry for the surveys. For fall 2016, she was determined to make the scavenger hunt as close to paperless as possible.

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