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Displaying 111 - 120 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Pride Month Displays | [NOTE: We didn't get this as a submission to "Ask the Lawyer", but we wish we had...] |
Board of Trustees, Discrimination, Ethics, Policy, Displays, First Amendment, Intellectual Freedom, New York Civil Rights Law | |
| Napping in library | Sometimes, people nap in the library, particularly people who we believe might not have stable or sufficient housing. |
Accomodations, ADA, Patron Confidentiality, Policy, Templates, Disability | |
| Use of Meeting Room Space Question Mash-Up | We recently received 2 questions that raised related issues, so we've merged them in this "Ask the Lawyer Meeting Room Question Mash-Up" RAQ. |
Meeting Room Policy, Policy, Privacy, Signage, Templates | |
| Reference Services for Incarcerated Populations | Periodically, our library receives handwritten requests for information from individuals who are incarcerated at prisons and correctional facil |
Academic Libraries, Ethics, Policy, Templates, Reference | |
| Library Employment Contracts | Our Board of Trustees is searching for a new director. |
Board of Trustees, Employment, Legal Poems, Library Employment Contracts, Public Libraries | |
| Image Use By Previous Employers | This is an issue that's come up in recent conversation. |
Employee Rights, Ethics, Image Rights, Templates, New York Civil Rights Law | |
| Creating adaptive copies of textbooks using text-to-speech | My institution subscribes to the "Kurzweil Reading Program", a "Text-to-Speech" product for those with reading impairments (dyslexia, Engl |
Accessibility, Accomodations, ADA, Copyright, Fair Use, Textbooks, Disability | |
| Public Vote for Library Capital Project | We are a school district public library planning a capital project. |
Donations, Public Libraries, Taxes, Voting | |
| Open Meetings Law 2022 Library Board Chart and Checklist | "Ask the Lawyer" got two questions about the April 9, 2022 changes to the Open Meetings Law ("OML"), which will enable library boards to more e |
Accessibility, Board of Trustees, Open Meetings Law, Templates | |
| Are scanned electronic signatures legitimate? | I am the Board Secretary. |
Board of Trustees, Open Meetings Law |