Definitions
- Posting: Includes handouts, flyers, posters, and exhibit items. The Library does not advocate or endorse the viewpoints of exhibits or exhibitors using limited public forum locations
- Display: Includes flyers, book materials, craft items, and exhibits created by professional City staff. Displays may feature celebratory recognitions, information on current trends or specialty topics
Subjects and Contents
The Library will consider postings that contain information about civic, cultural, educational, and recreational programs of likely interest to the local community, such postings include:
- Information about community affairs, organizations, services, and activities.
- Civic groups, service clubs, nonprofit organizations, and governmental units promoting free events are typical sponsors of these activities.
Political candidate or proposition materials, commercial promotions, or private events, such as yard sales, and “services provided,” are not eligible for posting as they are inconsistent with the non-partisan, non-commercial mission of the Santa Clarita Public Library. Postings that contain violence, obscenity, false or misleading information are not eligible for posting as they are inconsistent with the educational mission of the Santa Clarita Public Library.
Library Display content is guided by the Library Material Selection Policy. Displays highlight Library materials and programs that promote the interest and use of books and other Library resources, and may include presentation of books, visual arts and crafts, paintings, drawings, sculpture and a variety of media.
Inquiries pertaining to art displays at the Library can be directed to the City of Santa Clarita Arts and Events Division, which coordinates the display of art within City facilities.
Size and Location
The Library has discretion to decline to post any materials. Postings are only allowed in designated areas; generally, these are bulletin boards in the lobby.
Other areas, such as service desks, study tables, walls, windows, doors, and shelving end panels are reserved for the Library displays. Library displays shall have priority use of available space.
Requirements for Posting/Distributing Items
- Handouts, flyers, and posters are displayed no more than one month prior to the event and will be placed in the appropriate public forum location by Library staff.
- All items must identify the group or person responsible for distribution, and provide a contact address or telephone number.
- Posters, flyers, and pamphlets may be discarded by the Library staff after 30 days. The Library will relocate, rearrange, and remove materials as it chooses.
- The Library does not store materials prior to or after the posting period.
- Active distribution, in which a person on site hands out materials, canvases, solicits, or petitions, is not allowed in the Library.
- Items to be posted/distributed must not be in violation of any federal, state, or local laws.