At a minimum, library and librarian responses to civil unrest have helped ease some of the trauma, tension, and fear within communities simply by remaining open to the public and providing a familiar sense of normalcy. As another FMPL library employee put it, “If you need to make a photocopy, you can still go to your library even though it seems like the whole world is falling apart around you, you can still do the thing that you need to do to make it through your day.”15
