That is powerful, thank you for sharing. 
I know Dearborn Heights has a Tough Topics poster in their bathrooms. 
They have a variety of posters and a bin full of free hygiene supplies and Narcan. 

Danielle Kaltz
Digital Services Librarian 
Troy Public Library

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Good morning Michigan libraries!

Several years ago, I had seen a post on Reddit in which someone had photographed a 'tough topics' poster at a public library. The poster showed patrons where they might find some very important subjects that they might be hesitant to ask a librarian about, due to their sensitive nature.

I asked one of my department's Technology Training Associates to create one for us (shout out to Kayla Steeby for her work on this 🙂) so that we could update, customize, and possibly print these to display around our department.

I haven't seen anything like this for sale, so we thought we would just go ahead and make one ourselves and share it with anyone interested. I think this could be very helpful in empowering patrons to utilize library resources at their own comfort level.

If anyone is interested, I have here a link to a sharable Canva template, please just make yourself a copy that you can edit, print, download, etc.

Thank you everyone, and Happy Wednesday! 



Jessica Bostian

Assistant Manager/Librarian III

Patent and Trademark Resource Center Representative

Detroit Public Library

Social Science, Education & Religion

Business, Science & Technology

5201 Woodward Ave. 

Detroit, MI 48202

jbostian@detroitpubliclibrary.org

313-481-1403