Library Role in services to the Homeless

An issue that has been coming up more and more often both in my library and in the community as a whole has been services to the homeless community in the St. Louis area. What services can and should the library offer? Should we try to help or should we deny access? Should we give them library cards? How can we do that without proper identification and proof of address? Should we change our policies? These and other questions are the types of things that I hope to answer over the course of this semester.