Social Networking Sites Guidelines

The administrator of the Library’s Social Networking pages will follow these guidelines in addition to the Library’s Public Service Policies

Approved September 5, 2007

Purpose

• Connect with patrons, authors and other libraries
• Promote library programs, events and services through blogging and bulletins

Content

• Information about library programs, events and services
• Materials owned by the library
• Information about authors and their works
• Links to other webpages. As a social networking site, links will be made to pages created by people outside the Library; the Library has no control over the content of those pages.

Comments

• Comments deemed inappropriate for a public space will not be approved
• Comments containing html that may interfere with the layout of the page will not be approved
• Advertisement or promotional comments must be under 10 lines and are subject to the approval of the administrator

Friends

• Friends and followers are subject to approval by the administrator
• The Library reserves the right to approve or deny friends