Hi all, For those of you that own/manage your parking lot - do you have any rules or expectations (ex: library parking only, staff parking areas, etc)? If so, what are they? We recently acquired our parking lot and the board would like to hear what everyone else is doing. Thank you Cierra Bakovka, MLIS She/Her Director Henika District Library 149 South Main St. Wayland, MI 49348 269-792-2891 ext. 309 mailto:cierra@henikalibrary.org
We are a small town with a very large summer tourist population. Our parking lot gets used by people that are not using the library (and neighboring museum) much to our consternation. We don't have the staff to "patrol" the parking lot to determine where people are going after they park, so we purchased library parking signs (picture attached) which seems to have helped somewhat in making visitors aware, and they do get a chuckle. Mark On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:18 PM Cierra Bakovka via Michlib-l < michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
Hi all,
For those of you that own/manage your parking lot - do you have any rules or expectations (ex: library parking only, staff parking areas, etc)? If so, what are they? We recently acquired our parking lot and the board would like to hear what everyone else is doing. Thank you
*Cierra Bakovka, MLIS *
She/Her *Director* Henika District Library
149 South Main St. Wayland, MI 49348 269-792-2891 ext. 309 cierra@henikalibrary.org
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-- *Mark Morton* Director Leland Township Public Library 203 E Cedar St PO Box 736 Leland, MI 49654 231-256-9152
We have a back loop for our parking lot that is intended for staff, but the public is not prohibited there. We do have "library only" signs, and since we're adjacent to a popular park and walking trail, our signs have some additional language about those (photo attached). Last summer the overnight parking was starting to be a problem, but the local towing company wouldn't tow someone from our lot until we had signs posted at our parking lot entries, indicating no overnight parking under threat of towing, with the towing company and their phone number listed. I have those signs but didn't get them in before the ground froze, so they're waiting until better weather. In the meantime, this winter we haven't had any problems with overnighters, and we don't patrol to be sure people aren't parking in our lot and heading over to the park/trail (I know some are doing it, and while we have an extremely busy parking lot, they use a corner that is the last to fill up anyway). I hope that helps! On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM Mark Morton via Michlib-l < michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
We are a small town with a very large summer tourist population. Our parking lot gets used by people that are not using the library (and neighboring museum) much to our consternation. We don't have the staff to "patrol" the parking lot to determine where people are going after they park, so we purchased library parking signs (picture attached) which seems to have helped somewhat in making visitors aware, and they do get a chuckle. Mark
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:18 PM Cierra Bakovka via Michlib-l < michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
Hi all,
For those of you that own/manage your parking lot - do you have any rules or expectations (ex: library parking only, staff parking areas, etc)? If so, what are they? We recently acquired our parking lot and the board would like to hear what everyone else is doing. Thank you
*Cierra Bakovka, MLIS *
She/Her *Director* Henika District Library
149 South Main St. Wayland, MI 49348 269-792-2891 ext. 309 cierra@henikalibrary.org
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-- *Mark Morton* Director Leland Township Public Library 203 E Cedar St PO Box 736 Leland, MI 49654 231-256-9152
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