[TimBurman]

Google maps shows that directly across the street from the library is a Federal building with a lawn and five tents of campers or perhaps homeless people, installed on the sidewalk. I take sacnoradhq's word for it, though you are correct in saying the lawn appears to belong to the Federal building and not the library.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5819397,-121.4950718,3a,75y,...

[DropInIn]

So I suppose the real truth we've discovered in this thread is that sacnoradhq has never visited the city's public library ever....