Thank you, Anne, for all your offers and help in this discussion.
My expertise is greatest in making actual reports of incidents, over 35 years
worth. The library system I worked in served a resident population of 150,000,
but anyone in the metropolitan area of 2.5-3 million could freely walk
Before my day gets too busy to respond, I want to reply to a point made by
Malachi about the need for specific acts and items to be named in a Code of
Conduct. If I am interpreting what he is trying to say correctly, people need
the specific words and actions named so they know what is
As a now retired public librarian from a Midwestern fairly large urban
library system, I have helped write Code of Conducts and have banned people
from all the library facilities on my own authority for periods up to three
months. Longer periods of banishment had to be determined by the
I am going to be somewhat contrary to most of your other responses. My
preference is Being Sumapaz. The fact that it appears to be freestanding and,
to me, it appears to be representative of a few trees in the country, makes it
tops, Also, the fact that the other two are framed causes me to
