HELEN PLUM LIBRARY
U-2 Patron Behavior
Approved by the Library Board of Trustees July 8, 2014.
Reviewed by the Library Board of Trustees July 19, 2022.
In accordance with Illinois Compiled Statutes, Chapter 75, Act 5/4-7, the Board of Library Trustees of the Helen M. Plum Memorial Public Library District has the following powers:
- “To make and adopt … rules and regulations … for the government of the Library …” and
- “To exclude from the use of the Library any person who willfully violates the rules prescribed by the Board.”
Therefore, the Board of Trustees of the Helen M. Plum Memorial Public Library District adopts the following as its policy on patron behavior:
- The Library Director is delegated the authority to establish and amend as necessary reasonable rules and regulations governing appropriate patron behavior. These rules and regulations shall be available for examination in the Library.
- The Library staff has the right to remove people who are not using the Library’s materials and services. The Library staff further has the right to deny use of the Library building and grounds to those who are violating Library rules and regulations, and to deny them further Library access.
- The Library staff has the right to see identification of any person on the premises who is violating the rules of patron behavior.
- The Library staff may, and will, call the Lombard Police to help enforce the Library rules of patron behavior or to learn the identity of violators of patron behavior rules.
