Frustrated by ongoing youth behavioral problems at the East Lansing Public Library, ELPL staff are looking to outside sources for help.
“It is an unfair ask of our staff to be the only problem solvers in the room,” Interim Library Director Chrissie Evaskis-Garrett said.
The library has become a default space for students to kill time after school, and board members are concerned that this undermines the purpose of the library. At the Wednesday, Aug. 20 Library Board of Trustees meeting, the board declared a need for support…