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Hi and welcome to another Library 101. This Library 101 will go over library policies. So library policies why do you need them? You need library policies because they protect the library and its employees. Policies give employees something to reference when they have made a decision that was unpopular with a patron or even a board member. Policies give the library some leverage when confronted with different types of issues. Finally policies clear up any confusion that might exist with decisions that the administration or even employees make. What should you have a policy on? You can't possibly have a policy on everything that comes up in a library but it is important to cover some specific topics. Having a policy on donations helps you when someone donated a book to the library that wasn't kept but now they want to know where it is at or when a donor wants to put a value on the items that they have donated for tax purposes. Both of these scenarios put the librarian that's that they a