How Policies Portray Students: A Discourse Analysis of Codes of Conduct in Academic Libraries

In academic libraries, “codes of conduct” are policies that define what people who use those libraries allowed to do in library spaces and serve as rules for enforcement. this policy discourse analysis, the author examines these understand dominant discourses emerge about students libraries. The represented portray through frames deficit thinking, adultism, exclusion, surveillance. study advocates a critical shift design purpose policies, results may inspire librarians revise their center care respect students.