<div dir="ltr">Hi all<div>I had many requests when I asked about unattended child policies in regard to covid-19</div><div><br></div><div>I had one response from Michlib, that I have attached.  </div><div>But I did also gather some from some Facebook groups. </div><div><br></div><div>Here are some of the highlights I gathered from FB: (so from far and wide, not just MI libraries)</div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">-No unattended children 12 yrs or younger meaning there must be an ADULT, not an older sibling. We're seeing families with kids coming in for materials and to sign up for our SRP (all online this year), but we haven't seen our teens much.</span> </div><div>-<span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">No one under 18 without and adult. 1 hour time limit for all patrons.</span></div><div><font color="#1c1e21" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245)">-</span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Our new COVID child policy says no one under 16 is permitted in the building without an adult.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-</span><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ages 13 and under must be accompanied by an adult (not an older sibling) at all times while in the building. This means that a 12-year-old can't be browsing in YA while a parent looks at the DVDs; they need to stay together</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-</span><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">No one under the age of 14 without an adult. 30 min time limit for all</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-</span><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Same as it's always been. Must be 9+ to be in there w/o an adult. We only have very limited services and everything "fun" is put away so the 15 minute limit we're strongly encouraging is pretty easy to enforce.</span></div><div> -<span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We require minors under age 16 to be accompanied by an adult when coming into the library. All patrons are limited to 1 hour visit per day.</span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>-<span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">No under 12s at all - 30 minute single appointment for browsing or curbside pickup. We are small, so we can only let 1 at a time in right now</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-</span><span style="background-color:rgb(242,243,245);color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Our children's department is on a different floor. We have adjusted our policy so that no one can be in the library longer than 30 minutes. Students 13 and under must be here attended by a guardian 18+.</span></div><div><br></div><div>What we decided was to amend our covid policy to include a statement that children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult caregiver 18+ </div><div>After 1.5 weeks open we have only had 2 friends come in wanting to play computer games.  They seemed to understand once I explained it to them. </div><div><br></div><div><span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="158"><col width="351"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://loutitlibrary.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:148px;height:137px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ABS4G0ICm68T8bQR8UEAOASa2fjNTZNhanyLKxJbuUvRe-Z4_BvXG_J1bBS_lL29od4tTzqGlvNDyC3JJC5AU2DWzL0cBC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