Managing Challenging Patrons: Security for the New Library Environment

Every library encounters challenging situations with patrons who seem eccentric, entitled or possibly even aggressive. We all know who they are. In this one hour webinar, Dr. Steve Albrecht, one of the leading national experts on library safety and security, will guide you through managing these challenging patrons effectively, efficiently, and without creating major disruptions in your library environment. Author of the new ALA book, Library Security: Safer Facilities, Better Communication, Steve has trained thousands of library employees on the do's and don'ts of handling difficult or challenging patrons who disrupt the library environment.

This fast-paced, entertaining, and empowering webinar offers practical, realistic tools to make your facility a better, safer place to work. Using a mix of real-life experiences as a law enforcement officer, knowledge of workplace behavior and security measures and a good sense of humor, Steve will teach you how to activate your "high-risk" customer service skills.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:

• Understand the need for firm, fair, consistent, and assertive responses by staff when working with challenging or problematic patrons.
• Have guidelines for creating and enforcing library Codes of Conduct that are positive in tone and clearly written.
• Understand the importance for creating liaison relationships with law enforcement, mental health and other social service organization to assist when needed with the chronically mentally ill or homeless populations that enter the library

This webinar will be of interest to: Library staff in all types of libraries at all levels.

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Presentation Material

Speaker's slides

ppt [7mb]

pdf (Full slide) [4.9mb]

pdf (3 slides per page) [4.8mb]

Handouts

Library Cheat Sheet: pdf [63kb]

Library Employee Survey: pdf [65kb]

Library Security Survey Checklist: pdf [76kb]

Keywords: Customer service, Library policies