[Michlib-l] Quiet Study Room Policy

Tue Apr 5 08:15:59 EDT 2022

Ah. As usual, some bad actors ruin it for all. Thanks for the additional info.

Donna Winter
Assistant Branch Librarian
Livonia Public Library
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From: Tracy Aldrich <taldrich at ruthhughes.org>
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 6:27:05 PM
To: Winter, Donna <dwinter at livoniapubliclibrary.org>
Cc: michlib-l at mcls.org <michlib-l at mcls.org>; Lisa Cox <lcox at ruthhughes.org>
Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Quiet Study Room Policy

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<mailto: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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Subject: [Michlib-l] Quiet Study Room Policy

Hi

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 me. Thank you
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