By T. Scott Boatright
The Lincoln Parish Library (LPL) Board of Control approved the addition of three new policies for the library during its July meeting on Thursday at the LPL.
Those three newly established approved policies involved social media; displays and exhibits; and photography and media recording.
“We’ve never had any of these policies that most libraries have,” said LPL Director Jeremy Bolom. “They have been on my to-do list forever. The social media policy will be embedded into the staff policy as well. It works the same for both ends so that the public knows what the staff should and should not be doing online.
“To me, it’s common sense, but common sense has to be written out nowadays.”
PDFs of the three new policies can be found at the bottom of this article.
Bolom said that the LPL saw a large jump in patron visits, circulation, and programming numbers, standard with summer reading.
“Statistics were during the summer reading program, so all of the statistics had a huge jump in library visits and circulation because of children’s books.,” Bolom said. “Database stats were not received from the State Library because the person who does those is out on vacation.
“Program attendance was crazy. We had over 2,000 people because of the 32 programs we did for children last month.”
