Naming the library facility or designated areas within the library facility is the responsibility of the Whitefish Bay Public Library Board of Trustees.

The following guidelines are to be followed in naming the library facility or portions thereof:

1. Whenever a person's name is used, the individual must have made a significant contribution to library service on the local, state or national level. Individuals must have been responsible for a major development in improving the quality of library service either through a personal financial contribution to the Whitefish Bay Public Library or through specific, identifiable actions in support of library service over a sustained period of years. 

2. Persons of state and national renown must, at the time of the naming, be well-known and immediately recognizable as having made positive contributions to the development of library service or the quality of life for all citizens.

3. In recognition of significant actions, service or financial contributions on behalf of the Whitefish Bay Public Library, rooms or areas within a library may be named to honor individuals, corporations, or foundations. The individual, corporation, or foundation must have been responsible for a major development in improving the quality of library service either through a financial contribution to the Whitefish Bay Public Library or through specific, identifiable actions in support of library service over a sustained period of years.

4. While the Whitefish Bay Public Library Board of Trustees has the authority to change the name of the library facility or portions thereof, it shall also be the Board’s general policy to recognize past designees and contributors in perpetuity.

Whitefish Bay Public Library Naming Policy Approved by the Whitefish Bay Library Board of Trustees August 8, 2006
Reviewed and approved by the Whitefish Bay Library Board of Trustees July 22, 2014.