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Dealing With Demands to Preserve Evidence

Recently a law firm from Albany sent us a memo claiming to represent the plaintiff in a civil suit and informing us of their intent to have a subpoena issued for access to our security footage on a particular day. The memo asked us to preserve the footage in question in expectation of the subpoena. They did not specify an area of the library or a time for the footage.

I would like to know what limitations and obligations we have in this civil matter with regard to patron 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? What sort of social media records can be FOIL-ed and what are some best practices for using social media in regards to FOIL?
School library records retention

We got a question regarding how the new rules for records retention (the "LGS-1") impacts the retention of school library borrowing records.

Under the new LGS-1, how long must school library borrowing records be retained?  How does that impact BOCES, district, and school library records purging?