Happy Tuesday Library Land!

For those of you who have public meeting rooms that you manage in your buildings. I'd love to see your room use policy, especially if you have guidelines for political use. We've got a room reservation coming up next weekend that isn't in conflict with our current policy, but IMHO it's borderline with regard to what is acceptable from a politicizing standpoint. What's more interesting is that the reservation was made with general language "educational event," but the posters we're seeing for this event around town, paint a very different picture.

This seems to be happening more and more - where a group changes what their event is between the time of reservation and the event. I'll give some grace, as this happens with library programming too - you start with an idea, and it changes. BUT, it also has the feel of subversion, and that's what is unsettling.

We get this every so often with birthday parties, we don't allow birthday parties in our rooms (no thanks to the clean up there...) but folks will reserve the room for a 'meeting' and then bring out the cake and balloons. Really looks like a birthday party to me... This is similar, but I don't think there will be cake.

At this point, canceling will probably cause more problems than allowing the event to just proceed. But I do think our policy needs some tightening up. I'm looking for  language that you have found helpful in terms of conveying a clear message to those using your rooms. 

Many thanks! 

Andrea

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