The most significant priority for the Armstrong-Osborne Public Library is to provide library services to the Talladega community, as fully described in the Library's Mission Statement.

1. Policy on Video Taping, Photography, and Other Recording Devices Inside the Library**

Video cameras, cell phone cameras, movie cameras, and still cameras, whether film or electronic, with or without flash lighting, are prohibited inside the library without the specific written approval of the senior librarian in charge.

The Librarian in Charge shall grant permission in accordance with the following principles:

a. Privacy of patrons is the primary consideration. No patron or any person shall be photographed or recorded inside the library without his or her consent and obtaining permission from the Senior Librarian. 

b. In general, photographs will not be permitted during normal library hours in order not to inadvertently photograph patrons or the materials they are using in the library. An exception may be made under very limited circumstances in which no persons appear in the background of the area being photographed. 

(04/15)