Recently Asked Questions

We are a school district public library, and a governmental entity, considering crafting a policy relating to debts discharged in bankruptcy, if the library is named as a creditor.&n

Our library has a number of older Environmental Impact Studies (both draft and finals) which are taking up space, and we were wondering if we could discard them.

I have been reading the legal arguments undergirding the Controlled Digital Lending initiative (controlleddigitallendin

Several of the library's board members feel that it is illegal for the library to sell anything other than books and keep the money.

We have a question that relates to the intersection of New York state level library privacy laws (

A teacher would like to reproduce an entire article from a published magazine. They state that because it is only 10% of the entire magazine, it falls under fair use.

This question has 2 parts: 

What laws impact a library’s next-door-neighbor relationships?  Are there best practices for neighbor disputes? 

Should an event occur, is it legal in NYS to institute a lockdown in a public library?

Are municipal public libraries obligated to provide retirement benefits for all employees?