Have you seen the research on 3rd hand smoking? At hospitals, there is a no employee smoking at any length, no concessions. We are librarians/researchers, read the e-cig research also. How do you expect to enforce that footage? NO MEANS NO. Use your time to help patrons.UGH....
Re-read your message. It is not a mixed bag. Have boundaries and call it "library policies". Are you really going to spend time seeing if the smoke enters the building? Don't we have better things to address?
Just asking some questions.
On another note:
People will respect boundaries, you just have to set them.
My city library always looks very professional and smoke free....and we are across the street from a high school! Now that is expectations of professionalism. Never have I seen even and employee standing or high school student, smoking even near the library property. It can be done.
On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Jill Porter wrote:
Yesterday, I queried if your library had a smoke free campus, e.g. no smoking anywhere on library grounds, and how enforcement was going.
A number of people were interested in the results, so here they are. Four libraries had smoke free campuses; three had restrictions based on the number of feet from the building (25 and 50 ft); one allowed smoking on the grounds as long as the smoke didn't enter the building.
Enforcement was also a mixed bag, some having an easier time than others. Suggestions for enforcement success included having signage that people actually read(!) and including e-cigarettes in the policy.
Jill Porter
Assistant Director for Public Service
Traverse Area District Library
610 Woodmere Avenue
Traverse City, MI 49686
(231) 932-8532
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