About 150 library workers shouting “Staff up!” rallied outside San Francisco’s Main Library on Tuesday. They were calling on the city to hire more branch security guards and increase the number of full-time positions in the library system.

San Francisco Public Library spokesperson Michelle Jeffers said in an email that the library currently employs 559 full-time and 486 part-time workers, and security incidents were down 13.8 percent year-over-year in February compared to the same time last year.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.