Library louts.

• Position: Public libraries ban children under 14 during after-school hours - Brief article

With no place to hang out after school, some students are going to the public library--and many aren't there to study. Instead, they socialize, fight, and write on the walls. One Ohio library has banned children under 14 during after-school hours; other libraries are hiring security guards. An onslaught of rowdy middle school students prompted the library in Maplewood, N.J., to summon the police 18 times in 2006. In...