Ray Anne and other interested people,
We, too, are maintaining a no food/beverage policy while the main library
is allowing a variety of beverage containers. Besides signs on neon stock
on both entrance doors and on all three security portals, I made bookmarks
which explain the reasons behind the policy. (Theory: It's easier to
cooperate if you know why you are being asked to do something.) For the
first few weeks of the semester, we put one in each book checked out.
We introduced a mascot of sorts, a cockroach, who appears on one of our
bookmarks. This "logo" will be used in future pitches for a food-free
library. See MS Word attachment.
I also included a pitch for the policy at each B.I. session, but worded it
positively: "We have almost no rules here in the library. There is one
we do have and take seriously . . . Please take time to read the bookmark
so you'll know why."
Of course there has not been universal voluntary compliance, but students
have been a lot more pleasant about it after reading the bookmarks.
--shannon
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