I can only assume that your library, too, has its share of these battered souls. How do you deal with it?

We do our best, and as long as they don't cause problems they're permitted to stay. If they do cause problems we do anything from asking them to behave to telling them to leave to calling the cops.

What choice do you have when, for instance, a drunk is laying on the front lawn masturbating? Or is screaming obscenities while the program for two-year-olds is going on?