#50: Consider allowing naps

If your library has a ‘no sleeping’ provision in your code of conduct, consider softening it or at least talking with your colleagues about when you will and won’t enforce it. There are legitimate reasons for these rules, like allowing/encouraging staff to attempt to rouse people who may need medical attention and discouraging people from bringing in a lot of stuff and treating the space like a hotel room. However, sometimes sleeping prohibitions are just there to make people who are homeless feel unwelcome in the library and discourage them from spending time there. See if you can find a way to allow an elderly homeless gentleman reading the library’s copy of the newspaper to doze off in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes, or for a sleep-deprived teen to quietly rest his head on a table and nap until his ride arrives.