Abstract
In a litigious society every library administrator must take care to institute procedures which will minimize the likelihood of law suits based on harm caused by the library's negligence. The purpose of this article is to inform the library administrator of the law of negligence as it applies to premises liability. Covered are the duty of care owed and what care is owed to whom, the concept of negligence, the obligation to protect patrons from the crimes or other harms of third parties, the risks involved in protecting library property, and some of the defenses to the tort of negligence.
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