Legal Poems

Library Employment Contracts

Question

Our Board of Trustees is searching for a new director. Our Library has transitioned from a very small building to a modern, significantly larger building.

Union Business in the Library

Question

I understand that, as employers of a union shop, the library is required to allow the union a reasonable amount of time to conduct union business.[1]

Board of Trustees notes retention

Question

I am a Trustee on the Board of our library. I also serve as the Secretary to the Board. As such, I do the note-taking and draft the meeting minutes for every board meeting.

Paid sick leave for COVID quarantine

Question

The library (school district public library without a union or a bargaining agreement and less than 50 employees) offers paid sick leave for most employees.

Creating a poetry anthology

Question

Is it permissible to create an anthology of 20-30 poems, all by British poets, to be distributed to an entire grade level of students to be used for annotation and instruction?

Digitizing dramatic and musical works

Question

When it comes to digitizing large theater and music program collections, it is well-established that a library can digitize anything before 1923, and that if there are no copyright n