Fortifying Your Library: Protecting Your Library and Staff Through Policy
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Strengthen, revise, and evaluate your policies
Al Hayden offers practical advice for strengthening, revising, and evaluating your library policies.
Libraries are in need of updated policies now more than ever. Strong policy is one of the best ways to protect library staff, prevent issues, and keep unpreventable issues from escalating too far. Join Al Hayden for this webinar, which will offer practical advice for revising your library's policies with:
Essential policies every library should keep updated
Tools to evaluate the strength of the policies you have now
Guidelines to consider when revising your policies
Suggestions for training staff on your updates
Communicating policy to patrons
Attendees should leave with actionable ideas to strengthen, revise, and evaluate library policy manuals.
Join us on Wednesday, July 9, 2025
at 2:00 pm US Eastern, 11:00 am US Pacific
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About Al
Al Hayden (she/her) has been a policy nerd for 2 decades across several careers. She's spent the last decade working in libraries, combining her passions for data, policy, the mission of public libraries, and the power of the communities they bring together.
Al has held several managerial and administrative positions in libraries and is currently the Library Advisory Specialist for the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Her job is to advise Directors, Friends, Foundations, and Trustees in public libraries throughout the Commonwealth on best practices and solid policies, as well as how to mine useful data that demonstrates how their libraries are uniquely essential to their communities.
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Learn practical advice for strengthening, revising, and evaluating your library policies.