Library Reference: LA Quote 30

....there are thousands of people in the streets, limping through the doors of the Central Library, beating on the pay phones, not begging for help but demanding to pull the rest of us down into their dark hole. The library is their refuge, four stories up, four stories down into a dark hole. This is the Downtown Los Angeles I knew."  --  Joel J. Rane  (Scream at the Librarian)

Joel Rane didn't have a good time as a reference librarian in the Literature and Fiction Department of the Downtown's Central Library from June 2001 to April 2006. He spent his part of his time cataloguing patrons and had a 84 page, letterpressed cover, xeroxed interior book published by Booklyn Artists Alliance (2005).  Scream at the Librarian Illustrations by Raymond Pettibon & Cristin Sheehan Sullivan. After the jump, one library regular Rane calls "The Cougher." [Book By It's Cover]