Policy

The new NYS smoking ban in regards to public libraries states that smoking is banned "within 100 ft of all entrances, exits and outdoor areas”.

Is it legal for libraries to ban smoking on all of their owned property rather than 100 feet from entrances?

A community member is interested in gathering at the library for a non-staged, dramatic reading of a play published in the UK in 2016.

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Our library has a number of older Environmental Impact Studies (both draft and finals) which are taking up space, and we were wondering if we could discard them.

We are a school district public library, and a governmental entity, considering crafting a policy relating to debts discharged in bankruptcy, if the library is named as a creditor.&n

Several of the library's board members feel that it is illegal for the library to sell anything other than books and keep the money.

We have a question that relates to the intersection of New York state level library privacy laws (

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What is the order of due process in a local library for employees?
Which laws/policies apply most in advocating employee rights?

Does our library incur any liability when a program presenter uses our facility and presents a program at our behest that includes music, either a previously-issued recording of musi