. >> i am jerry shapiro and a third generation san franciscoan and i am a lawyer, practicing in the three attorney firm and i am a regular user of the library. you should not find that less than 30 to 35,000 square feet located 8 or 9 blocks from the civil courts is suitable or sufficient or accessible or convenient. first the library needs that space at a minimum. although additional space is available, with the veteran's building, the city has not provided that space to the library. i often find the desk and computers occupied so that the people who want to use it either stand or can't use it. the space is so small that the library has cut back its collection this means that there are not multiple copies of many books that people commonly need. if you have a book of of the shelf i can't use it. in addition as you have heard much of the klekds collection is in storage and not available to anyone at all. this includes the irreplaceable unique historic collection of the library. as ray bradbury said to counter the statement by my predecessor, you don't have to burn books to destroy a cultu