- Upcoming Webinar from Infopeople.
- Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Time: 2pm – 3:00 pm Central Standard Time
- Speaker: Mary Minow
- Webinar Link
- Cost: Free
- Registration: Not Required.
Legal issues on a variety of situations facing libraries on the ground, from privacy to censorship to meeting rooms, are constantly changing.
What is the current status of the Patriot Act and how does it affect your library? Is it time to refresh staff on how to respond to requests for patron records? Want an update on challenges to library materials and how the courts have weighed in? Is your meeting room and exhibit space policy legally viable?
Those attending the webinar will:
- Learn new case law critical to updating your meeting room policies
- Get an update on PATRIOT Act and how it affects your library
- Get items to consider when updating your privacy policy
- Learn about the latest challenges to library materials
This one-hour webinar will be of interest to library managers and those that plan to be managers.
Speaker: Mary Minow. Mary is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She edits the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site. She teaches digital copyright at San Jose State School of Library Science and at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is a past President of the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners.
She is the first recipient of the California Library Association’s Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004.
If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar. Check our archive listing.
Heather Braum is the Technology Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the 
