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| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Legislative District Libraries and Early Voting | We are a Special Legislative District library holding our annual Budget Referendum and Trustee Election soon. |
Early Voting, Voting, Board of Trustees, Elections, Special Leg Libraries | |
| Does work at a library system or council “count” for Civil Service? | [We got a question from a library system...] |
Civil Service, Public Libraries, Ask HR, Employment, 3Rs Councils, Library Counsel, Library Systems | |
| Academic Libraries Remediating “Born PDFs” | We currently offer a service that collects older static PDFs of library/research content and provide faculty with a URL (or permalink) to that |
Copyright, Academic Libraries, Section 108, Fair Use, Copyright Act Section 107, Licensing | |
| Libraries, Fax Machines, and Data Security Obligations | Outside of best practices for staff handling of sensitive documents, are public libraries otherwise bound by HIPAA, FERPA and SOX when sending |
Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, Fax, Privacy, Data Security, Technology, ILS, ILL | |
| Are School District Public Library Exempt from Early Voting Requirements? | Our school district public library has offered early mail ballots for our 2024 and 2025 budget vote and trustee election. |
Public Libraries, School Districts, Voting, Elections, Early Voting | |
| NYS Retirement and Public Libraries: FAQs and Myths | We got a series of questions from a public library system about New York State Retirement. Buckle up, this is a LOT. |
Public Libraries, Retirement, NYSLRS, Templates, School Districts | |
| What every school librarian’s union rep should know | I am a school librarian represented by the teachers’ union. What should my union leaders know to advocate for me? |
School Libraries, NYS Education Law, FERPA, CPLR 4509, Unions, Intellectual Freedom | |
| Privacy concerns related to software monitoring of public school library records | I am a school librarian, and just found out my school district is using student-device monitoring software. |
Privacy, School Libraries, AI, Templates, FERPA, CPLR 4509 | |
| Art Show+! Copyright Considerations of Display and Use of Minor Student Work | We are reviewing our copyright policies and procedures at our BOCES. We are specifically reviewing student work. |
Copyright, Fair Use, Students, School Libraries, Section 110, Templates | |
| Process for Organizational Solidarity Statements | I’m part of a professional library association that is a 501(c)(3), like the American Library Association, Association for College and Research |
501c3, Ethics, Political Action |
