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Displaying 81 - 90 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Privacy of Barred Patrons | [Our library directors] group had a discussion about sharing information about patrons who have been barred from a library within the System us |
Ethics, Patron Confidentiality, Privacy | |
| FOIL and Social Media | For public libraries that must comply with Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), how does FOIL impact our organization's use of social media? |
FOIA/FOIL, LGS-1, Policy, Privacy, Public Libraries, Record Retention, Social Media | |
| Donations Solicitations for Public Libraries | A town municipal public library has been told by the town that the library cannot have a donate to the library button on the library's website. |
Donations, Municipal Libraries, Public Libraries | |
| Access to High School Yearbooks in Public Library | Our local public library has started a collection of donated yearbooks from the high school. |
Copyright, Digitization and Copyright, Image Rights, Privacy, School Districts, Yearbooks | |
| Monitoring Employee Workplace Telecommuncations | We got a question about implementing the new Section 52-c of the New York Civil Rights Law, which requires employers to notify employees if the |
Employee Rights, New York Civil Rights Law | |
| Using Emails from ILS Patron Database | Can we use the email addresses of our patrons from our ILS patron database to send a donation request for our association library's annual fund |
Data, Privacy, Ethics, Patron Confidentiality, Donations | |
| Agenda Changes | Often times, our meeting agenda changes so we would like to add a disclosure at the bottom that reads “Agenda is subject to change |
Board of Trustees, By-laws, Open Meetings Law, Public Libraries | |
| NYS Documentation in the Public Domain | I am of the understanding that NYS departments documentation falls under public domain. Can you provide any insight into this? |
Archives, Copyright, Public Domain, Legal Poems | |
| Offering Travel Grants to Members | A director of a library resources council asks… |
Employee Rights, Liability, Policy | |
| Staff Member Position on Board of Trustees | [My library's] community is calling for a member of the staff to have a seat on the board as a voting member. |
Board of Trustees, Employee Rights, Voting |