<div dir="ltr"><div>We say age 14. It works very well for us.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Carolyn Sherrill (she/her/hers) MLIS</font></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Youth Services Librarian</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rochester Hills Public Library</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rochester Hills, Michigan</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">248-656-2149</font></div></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM Patricia K. W. Buckhold via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>We specifically didn't want to use age as the standard, both because staff rarely knows the age of a patron and because there are 6 year olds who live on the same block and are exemplary patrons while there are 10 year olds who are unreasonably disruptive...we also tend to have more issues with parents who are in the building letting their children go wild than we do with children who come to the library unaccompanied. <br><img src="cid:ii_199125a573c4700e7143" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 3, 2025, 4:34 PM Cari Fry via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah Rick via Michlib-l<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 3, 2025 1:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mail.mcls.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">michlib-l@mail.mcls.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jana Slisher <<a href="mailto:jslisher@bathtownshippubliclibrary.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jslisher@bathtownshippubliclibrary.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Michlib-l] Unattended Minor Age<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos;color:black">I am emailing to ask at what age are kids permitted to be in the library unattended by a supervising adult? We are looking to review our policy and wanted to see what cap other libraries have.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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