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Displaying 201 - 210 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Student photos on school library cards | Is it legal to print student photos with their names on their school library cards for circulation use? |
CPLR 4509, FERPA, Library Card Policy, Library Cards, Privacy, School Libraries | |
| Health assessment screening records | The public libraries in our region have been requiring staff to complete a health self-assessment every day that they report to the building to |
COVID-19, Personnel Records, Record Retention | |
| NY's paid sick leave law | The state's new paid sick leave law recently went into effect on September 30th. |
Employee Rights, Public Libraries, Sick Leave, FOIA/FOIL, Health Management, Public Health, Records Management, PTO, Vacation, and Leave | |
| Considering accessibility in library statements and purchases | Should our library have an accessibility statement? And should we consider accessibility when making purchases? |
Accessibility, ADA, Policy, Library Purchases, Universal design, Disability | |
| Request to remove scanned yearbook pages | I received a request from a former student of [a local high school] in which her name appears on a yearbook page citing student activities. |
Copyright, COVID-19, Digital Access, Digitization and Copyright, Yearbooks | |
| Viewing DVD materials with remote-based students | I've had an interesting question posed to me by two Social Studies teachers and... I have a feeling this may be a more pervasive issue. |
Copyright, COVID-19, Assignments, DVDs, Movies, Remote Learning | |
| Music used for virtual school Halloween parade | The elementary is planning a virtual Halloween parade this year. The students will parade through the building in costume. |
Copyleft, Copyright, COVID-19, Library Programming and Events, Music, Streaming, Zoom | |
| Addressing copyright cease and desist notices | Help! We just got a very scary "cease and desist" notice from a company claiming to own the copyrights to some videos that were posted on |
Copyright, COVID-19, Cease and desist | |
| Face shields and COVID safety guidelines | New state guidelines list face shields as acceptable face coverings: |
COVID-19, Emergency Response, Policy, Safety, Masks, Public Health | |
| Does NYS plastic bag ban apply to libraries? | [NOTE: This question relates 6 NYCRR Part 351, which implements the requirements of Titles 27 and 28 of Article 27 of the Environmental Conserv |
COVID-19, Public Libraries |