Social Networking Policy

The Aurora Public Library will implement and maintain various social networking applications and services for the purpose of facilitating an online platform of communication between library staff and library users about library related subjects and issues. Social networking is maintained and monitored by the Aurora Public Library staff under the direction of the Public Information Manager.

Comments, posts and messages are welcome. However, the Aurora Public Library reserves the right to monitor content before or as it is posted on all of their social software web sites and accounts. The following will be removed:

• Obscene or racist content
• Personal attacks, insults or threatening language
• Potentially libelous statements
• Plagiarized material
• Private or personal information submitted without consent
• Comments totally unrelated to the content of the forum
• Hyperlinks to material that is not directly related to the discussion
• Commercial promotions, organized political activity or spam
• Any messages deemed to be in violation of copyright, trademark right or other intellectual property right of any third party
• Photos or images which may fall into any of the above categories

Abuse of the above policy may result in the responsible poster being barred from posting any subsequent messages to the Library social media site. Violation of the terms can lead to legal liability.

The Aurora Public Library is not responsible or liable for content posted by any subscriber in any forum, message board, or any other area within the service.

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