INTRODUCTION:
The Board of MT’s Library welcomes visitors and encourages them to use its resources. The Board also acknowledges the necessity to maintain an environment in which patrons and staff can be free from harassment, intimidation, threats to their safety and well-being, and protects library resources and facilities from damage. To provide safeguards against such behavior and damage to property, the Library Board has adopted the following Rules of Conduct, which specify the type of activities or behavior that is not permitted on library premises.
The Library remains vigilant in ensuring patrons act appropriately and are reasonably safe within the library and on its premises. In addition to the enforcement of its own policies, the Library reserves the right to enforce restrictions on access to the Library of any person listed on the sexual offender registry as authorized under, and in the manner contemplated by, Tennessee Code Annotated 40-39-216 on a case by case basis when made aware of a problem situation.
These rules of conduct shall apply to all buildings, interior and exterior, and all grounds controlled and operated by MT’s Library (such buildings and grounds are hereafter referred to as the “premises”) and to all persons entering in or on the premises.
Listed in the next link are the library’s rules of conduct. Persons who violate these rules may be ejected from the premises and excluded from all library premises for the time prescribed below.