[Michlib-l] Supervised visits policies

[Perri Saunders]

For those of you that were asking about guidelines for supervised visits - I've attached what we came up with.  I recognize the folly in developing a policy or guideline for certain people/situations, but we all know that that's why some policies are made.

I have chosen to call this a "library guideline" - a guideline for behavior of all people in the library that is shorter and easier to refer to than our patron behavior policy, but still follows the rules set there.

I have posted this guideline in the foyer and on the kid's room door, and have given it to (and talked about it with) the social worker in question.  It did make the supervised visit much more tolerable on Tuesday, and we hope it will improve other supervised visits as well.

Thanks for your input, and I hope our "guidelines" will help other libraries too.

Happy New Year!

Perri Saunders, Director
White Pigeon Township Library
102 N. Kalamazoo St., P.O. Box 399
White Pigeon, MI   49099
Phone  269.483.7409
Fax  269.483.9923
perri at monroe.lib.mi.us<mailto:perri at monroe.lib.mi.us>

Brighten the corner where you are.


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From: Nancy Studebaker [director at nileslibrary.net]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:32 AM
To: Perri Saunders
Cc: michlib-l
Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Supervised visits policies

Policies for this specific group of patrons seems like a bad idea.  Anytime you are writing policy you have to be very careful about targeting specific people.  The only differentiations I can think of that we have (and are commonly made) is children vs adults and non-profit vs for-profit entities.  I can't see how are they really different from everyone else other or our expectations of them would be any different.

NS

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Perri Saunders <perri at monroe.lib.mi.us<mailto:perri at monroe.lib.mi.us>> wrote:
Supervised visits are becoming more and more frequent at our library, and with them come people that don't normally use the library, and don't know what behavior is expected.

Do any of you have specific policies for supervised visits, or have hand-outs to give parents and social workers?  We have discovered finger-painting and clay work, along with lots of snacks happening in our kids room - plus general mayhem and messes.

We have patron behavior policies, but it would be nice to have something specific to this situation.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Happy Holidays!

Perri Saunders, Director
White Pigeon Township Library
102 N. Kalamazoo St., P.O. Box 399
White Pigeon, MI   49099
Phone  269.483.7409<tel:269.483.7409>
Fax  269.483.9923<tel:269.483.9923>
perri at monroe.lib.mi.us<mailto:perri at monroe.lib.mi.us>

Brighten the corner where you are.



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Nancy Studebaker, Director
Niles District Library
620 E Main
Niles, MI 49120
Phone 269 683 8545 x122
Fax 269 683 0075
Cell 269 277 0127
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