RULES GOVERNING PATRON CONDUCT

WHILE IN THE BUILDING, PATRONS MAY NOT:

• Smoke
  
• Eat or drink
  
• Loiter or solicit
  
• Bring any animals into the building (except guide dogs for the blind)
  
• Harass other patrons OR library personnel
  
• Engage in disruptive behavior
  
• Use inappropriate language
  
• Allow your children to engage in disruptive behavior
  
• Be drunk or disorderly
  
• Leave children unattended
  
• Enter the library with bare feet or without a shirt
  
• Place feet on tables or chairs
  
• Have extreme body odor or other foul smells
  
• Have suitcases, duffel bags, or other very large bags in the library - these must be left outside the building and the library assumes no responsibility for them
  

At the discretion of staff, patrons may be asked to leave their backpacks, groceries, or other bags behind the circulation desk until they are ready to leave the building. Staff are prohibited from keeping personal items for people who intend to leave the building and then come back.

The library assumes no responsibility for personal items brought into the library and requests that patrons refrain from bringing unnecessary items into the building - especially food or drink.

Patrons must allow staff to search their belongings if they have set off the security alarm when attempting to exit or if staff have any reason to suspect they may have library items that were not properly checked out.

THE VIOLATION OF ANY ONE OF THESE RULES MAY SUBJECT THE INDIVIDUAL(S) INVOLVED TO EXCLUSION FROM THE LIBRARY!

Approved by the Ohio County Public Library Board of Trustees, Oct. 14, 1997. Revised August 2003