Wednesday, December 16, 2009

New Library Policies Approved

The Library Board of Trustees approved the following policies at the 12/9/2009 meeting.

Bulletin Board Postings Policy
The bulletin board is for posters or notices of local interest and for announcements by local groups of civic, educational, or recreational activities. Because of space limitations, posted items must be of reasonable size. Nothing is to be posted without the approval of a library staff member, who is to initial and date each item.

The following types of materials will not be posted:
  • Political campaign posters
  • Materials advocating or promoting one side of a social, moral, political or other controversial issue
  • Commercial advertising
  • Advertisements for personal profit

Paging Patrons for Telephone Calls

In order to maintain a reasonably quiet library, protect minors using the library, and to comply with Minnesota Statute Data Practices Act, Library staff is unable to accept requests to page patrons in the building.

The library's public address system is to be used for the following:

  • Library closing messages
  • Library emergency messages such as evacuation, weather warnings, calls for a physician
  • Informing staff that they have a service call
  • Requests for additional staff assistance in a public area
  • Announcement of library programs

All library users are requested to advise people who might call them that the library does not offer a paging/messenger service, except in emergencies.

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