Behavior Guidelines

In library world, especially public library world, it is usually best to have an established and highly visible set of rules that patrons have to abide by when they are in the library. Depending on how your particular district is funded, the various state revised codes allow you to create a policy as approved by your Board of Trustees. In looking over various issues over the last few months about what it is that librarians are dealing with, it seems more and more apparent that this is a necessary tool to work with.
A lot of the issues that I have spoken about in this blog and things that I have had to deal with in the library where I work have revolved around patrons violating one or more of these guidelines. However, what I have come to notice even more is that in the IF world, these guidelines are also established to protect the patron and their right to access information.