[Michlib-l] Smoke free campus follow up

[Shirley Dudek]

Dear Jill,

I am sorry, but after reading this, no means no. Go home, go somewhere  
else far away from any footage measurement!!!! It is your public  
library space. Manage it with respect. You do not have to defend this  
policy, just enforce it. What kind of landscape do you want to display  
with people smoking measurable feet you have designated from your door  
at your library. Not a picture or scene I would like to see.

Have you seen the research on 3rd hand smoking?  At hospitals, there  
is a no employee smoking at any length, no concessions. We are  
librarians/researchers, read the e-cig research also. How do you  
expect to enforce that footage?      NO MEANS NO. Use your time to  
help patrons.UGH....
Re-read your message. It is not a mixed bag. Have boundaries and call  
it "library policies". Are you really going to spend time seeing if  
the smoke enters the building? Don't we have better things to address?
Just asking some questions.
On another note:
People will respect boundaries, you just have to set them.
My city library always looks very professional and smoke free....and  
we are across the street from a high school!  Now that is expectations  
of professionalism. Never have I seen even and employee standing or  
high school student, smoking even near the library property.  It can  
be done.



On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Jill Porter wrote:

> Yesterday, I queried if your library had a smoke free campus, e.g.  
> no smoking anywhere on library grounds, and how enforcement was going.
>
> A number of people were interested in the results, so here they  
> are.  Four libraries had smoke free campuses; three had restrictions  
> based on the number of feet from the building (25 and 50 ft); one  
> allowed smoking on the grounds as long as the smoke didn't enter the  
> building.
>
> Enforcement was also a mixed bag, some having an easier time than  
> others.  Suggestions for enforcement success included having signage  
> that people actually read(!) and including e-cigarettes in the policy.
>
> Jill Porter
> Assistant Director for Public Service
> Traverse Area District Library
> 610 Woodmere Avenue
> Traverse City, MI 49686
> (231) 932-8532
> www.tadl.org
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