Trusted Libraries Index
Anne Arundel County Public Library
Meeting Rooms Policy:
"The Anne Arundel County Public Library (AACPL) welcomes the use of its Meeting Rooms for public gatherings by groups who agree to observe library rules and whose activities do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability."
Cambridge Public Library
Behavior Policy:
"Cambridge Public Library’s Behavior Policy specifically prohibits: Interfering with anotherperson’s right to use the Library or with the library staff’s performance of their duties. Hate speech directed at a member of the public or staff clearly violates our Behavior Policy. The Behavior Policy states: that failure to comply with one or more of the library’s established policies may result in the suspension of library privileges.
Meeting Rooms Policy:
"All groups, clubs, entities or individuals using a library meeting room must comply with these rules and with the Behavior Policy of the Cambridge Public library. Failure to comply with the rules may lead to immediate termination of the meeting, exclusion of individuals from library premises pursuant to the rules, and/or loss of future meeting room privileges."
Hate Speech Policy:
"Cambridge Public Library will not tolerate hate speech directed at patrons or staff. Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women."