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Displaying 171 - 180 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Security Surveillance Cameras | We are a municipal library and the building is owned by the county. |
Ethics, Municipal Libraries, Privacy, Law enforcement, Surveillance | |
| Copyright protocols for restaurant menus | (Question has been slightly modified to maintain anonymity) |
Archives, Copyright, Digitization and Copyright, Fair Use, Special collections | |
| Music Performance and Broadcasting on Webpage | A high school band has purchased music with permission to perform. |
CONTU, Copyright, Fair Use, Licensing, Music, Streaming | |
| Update on retention of health screening records | I am writing to update the excellent advice on the RAQ page from November 2020 in |
COVID-19, Emergency Response, Personnel Records, Records Management, Record Retention | |
| Collaborating with volunteer organizations to provide services | If a nonprofit organization is unionized, may they have volunteers as part of a collaborative effort with another organization for a service that i |
Labor, Non-profits, Policy, Unions, Volunteers | |
| Background checks and fingerprinting for new employees | My questions involve background checks for potential new employees, fingerprinting, developing policies, procedures, and best practices. |
Employee Rights, Ethics, Hiring Practices, Management, Policy, Privacy, Safety, Risk Management, Background Checks | |
| Unemployment Fraud Reporting | Staff members have recently received documentation from NY State Dept of Labor regarding Unemployment Claims in 2020 which the paperwork implies th |
Unemployment | |
| Paid and unpaid leave for library staff | We had 5 staff members for all of 2020 but one of them retired as of 12/31/2020 - i.e., last calendar year and has not worked in 2021 (But |
PTO | |
| Proof of vaccination from employees | We are a large (100-employee) school district public library. |
COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, Emergency Response, Employee Rights, Policy, Public Health, Public Libraries | |
| Archival materials, Privacy, and FERPA | My institution has a small number of documents in our archives related to previous graduate students. |
Academic Libraries, Archives, Copyright, Digitization and Copyright, FERPA, Privacy |