Ethics

We have a school district public library board considering requiring background checks for new employees.

I serve on the board of an association library.

We are a municipal library and the building is owned by the county. The county will be installing security cameras outside the library in multiple locations for safety reasons.

My questions involve background checks for potential new employees, fingerprinting, developing policies, procedures, and best practices.

One of our member libraries has asked me the following question:

[Our library directors] group had a discussion about sharing information about patrons who have been barred from a library within the System using the notes field in the patron’s lib

Our archive was part of a regional project to initiate, scan, and make available church records from predominantly African American churches within a city.

What recourse may a library board take, if a former director removes all library files from a library owned computer that relate to the running of the public library?

What, if any, are the ramifications if a school district public library board of trustee member refuses to sign the code of ethics and/or the conflict of interest/whistleblower polic

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