Welcome to Masterton District Library’s social media pages. Here you’ll find updates on events, news, and everything happening at the Library. We also use these spaces to share resources from our collections, promote events and programmes, and encourage kōrero about the library. Monitoring
Our social media accounts are monitored between 9am and 5pm on business days. We aim to reply to questions within 24 business hours. Community Guidelines
We encourage interaction with our posts and welcome kōrero from the community. However, we reserve the right to remove comments that breach these guidelines or the platforms’ own terms and conditions. To help keep our social media platforms safe and respectful, we ask that people follow these guidelines:
Be respectful. Please be courteous and avoid comments that contain offensive, profane, defamatory, or threatening language, or which are otherwise inappropriate in a public forum. These comments will be removed in accordance with the Harmful Digital Communications Act. Please keep comments relevant to the post or discussion. Healthy debate is welcome, but repeated posting of the same message will be treated as spam and may result in comments being hidden or users being blocked. Protect privacy. Please don’t share personal, identifying, or confidential information such as addresses, phone numbers, emails, or account details. Political content. Masterton District Library is politically neutral. Posts or comments that promote electioneering or political campaigns will be removed. Endorsement
Masterton District Library does not implicitly or explicitly endorse any individual or organisation by creating a social media connection, regardless of the terms used by social media providers. We may maintain social media connections with individuals and organisations that hold different or opposing views. We are not responsible for the content of those profiles. We do not necessarily endorse a person or organisation when we follow, share, or ‘like’ content from them. Disclaimer
The content of our social media platforms is intended for informational purposes only. Masterton District Library will not accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided on these sites or linked sites. The information is provided on the basis that anyone accessing it takes responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. Ngā mihi nui — we look forward to sharing knowledge, stories, and opportunities with you.
