Library Rules of Conduct

The Board of Trustees of the Milwaukee Public Library has the right to establish and enforce regulations that will allow the Library to provide services, maintain the collection, and ensure an atmosphere within its facilities to the benefit of the greatest number of users. Upon request, patrons will be required to show their library cards or other identification to library staff or security guards, and may be asked to sign in.  Anyone who disregards these regulations is subject to removal from the library and/or restriction of library privileges.

Specific inappropriate conduct includes but is not limited to: eating, drinking or smoking; sleeping or socializing; loitering or interfering with free passage; behaving in a disorderly, boisterous or loud manner; panhandling or soliciting; using cell phones in non-designated areas; using audio or personal equipment that disturbs others or interferes with library service; being under the influence of drugs or alcohol; damaging, defacing, destroying, or stealing library property; violating computer use policies; using library restroom facilities for inappropriate purposes such as loitering, bathing, etc.; skateboarding, rollerblading, etc.; harassing or threatening another person; poor hygiene that is offensive to other persons; bringing in excessive items that cannot be stowed under a standard study chair; and bringing in animals except as required by persons with disabilities.

From the Library Code of Conduct
approved by the Board of Trustees
Milwaukee Public Library
May 2006