[Publib] Cell Phones in the Library

[Lisa Richland]

Lise-
 
We do three things:  We post a small sign on our front door and inner
lobby door that says "Please turn off your cell phone before coming in
to the Library."  We have a cartoon from Library Journal or American
Libraries of a Circulation desk with a sign the says Cell Phone use
prohibited and also shows the librarian holding a smoking gun and a
patron looking at the decimated cell phone in his hand.  And then we
tell violators to take their call outside or turn their phone off.  The
monitoring is a bit of a pain, but we have managed to train the patrons
that we don't back down.
 
We use information, humor and enforcement.  The humor part is very
important.
 
...and that's MY opinion
 
Lisa Richland, Director
Floyd Memorial Library  (the last library before Portugal)
Greenport, NY
 
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