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After six years as a librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, emphasizing outreach to public housing communities and homeless shelters, Linda Tashbook bacame a lawyer. Now, after ten years of practicing law part-time and working full-time as a law librarians, she has started “The Homeless Law Blog“which discusses legal reference questions that are likely to arise in the ordinary life of a homeless person.

Blog posts are loaded with resources and links on subjects like, legal rights when police make “homeless sweeps,” the right of the homeless during weather emergencies, rights and liabilities connected with found property, and much more.

Tags: homeless, public libraries

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