[Michlib-l] Quiet Study Room Policy

[Tracy Aldrich]

Hi,

I can expand and clarify a bit: our quiet study/small group meeting rooms
are currently open to all ages, but we are having a lot of problems with
after school teens and middle schoolers using the rooms inappropriately
(being noisy and rowdy, trashing and vandalizing the spaces, and harrassing
people.) We do enforce our quiet and behavior policies, but it's day after
day after day, and staff are getting weary from it and other patrons are
getting upset at the daily disruption.  So we are curious to see what
policies/procedures others have for such rooms.

Tracy

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 6:02 PM Winter, Donna via Michlib-l <michlib-l at mcls.org>
wrote:

> Playing devil's advocate here....
>
> Is it right to limit a space by age if your policy on quiet is strong
> enough to enforce? What's the reason for stopping a younger person from
> accessing a quiet space?
>
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> *Donna Winter*
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> Livonia Public Library
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> *Subject:* [Michlib-l] Quiet Study Room Policy
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> Hi
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> Was looking for a sample of a quiet study room policy. Particularly
> focusing on the age limit.  If anyone has a link or copy that you can send
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