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The resident librarian takes Corby under her wing, and invites him to put his artist skills to work by painting a mural, which proves cathartic.

“Libraries are not icing on the cake. They’re not the cherry on top,” John Szabo, the city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, told me.

It can now represent a librarian, adjunct professor or social worker, all of whom make little more than McDonald’s wages, but are the cultural villains of the great Republican morality play.

“We are deeply disappointed by this ill-informed decision, which immediately affects critical programs supported by these funds,” Rebecca Wendt, the California deputy state librarian, said in a statement.

As director and narrator Dawn Logsdon describes in her documentary “Free for All: The Public Library,” these horrors inspired America's librarians to codify their unifying principles into a document.