Reglamentos de bibliotecas públicas: ideas para elaborarlos

Public libraries are managed by inside standards, sometimes called rules, codes of behaviour or user guidelines. The variety of terms to mention them is only the first sign of disparity. What is the good of them?, what does characterize good rules?, what steps must fulfil rules to be legal?, which sides of the library usage are usally included?, what do they forget? To answer to these questions we have taken 40 different rules, from two extreme backgrounds, Catalonia and the United States, and we analyse them. The result is a synthesis thought to help public library managers to write rules