By Mallory Clarkson/London Community News

Walking through the second floor of the London Public Library’s (LPL) central branch, you’d spot a display with books on globalization, the financial crisis and the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

Through this, the library isn’t trying to educate people on economics, nor to sway opinions on the Occupy movement. Rather, it’s trying to bring awareness to the cause and offer people the opportunity to educate themselves on Occupy London , said a supervisor at LPL’s Central Library.

“What we try to do through displays is to bring awareness to different issues and to allow people to educate themselves through access to our collection,” said David Caloren. “We try to do topical displays of various sorts and something like the Occupy movement allows us to bring material from different bits of the collection together into one cohesive place.”

Caloren said he organized the display earlier in the week. He stressed this wasn’t LPL taking a stand on the movement, but rather only about raising awareness.

“That’s sort of how I saw it,” he said. “I tried to make it so it was sort of obvious and that it had a large amount of material that people could, if they wanted to, educate themselves.”

One of the desks Caloren sits at is a resource desk on the second floor. From there, he said, he has a clear view of the display and people’s reactions while looking at the reading material on it.

Although he said he’s seen a lot of puzzled reactions — as well as positive and negative ones too— books are being taken off the display and checked out.

“I have had some interactions with people where they don’t know what the Occupy (movement) is all about — it’s sort of a vague kind of movement for some people,” he said. “It’s in the news and people might not understand much about it, it was just a way of connecting them back to the resources we have.”

The display will remain up as long as the issue remains topical and relevant.