[iDiversity] CSL_FYI: Infopeople's webinar "Social Media, Libraries, and the Law"

[Marisa Duarte]

This may be of interest to library science and other iSchool students interested in libraries, social media, and the law. A nice learning opportunity!

Marisa
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Marisa E. Duarte, MLIS
PhD Program
University of Washington Information School
meduarte at uw.edu

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> FYI 

> Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who might be interested in this webinar.

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> Title:  Social Media, Libraries, and the Law

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> Format:  Webinar

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> Date:  Thursday, March 17, 2011

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> Start Time:          Noon, Pacific Time

> 1:00 pm, Mountain Time

> 2:00 pm, Central Time

> 3:00 pm, Eastern Time

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> This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge and registration is ONLY done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No Passwords are required.  For Tips and Registration Information, please go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/tips.html

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> For more information and to participate in the March 17 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/440/index.html

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> Social Media services are some of the latest tools libraries use to communicate with their users.

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> ·        Does your library have facebook, twitter and flickr accounts?

> ·        Do you understand their terms-of-service, and know what may be negotiable?

> ·        Do you create content for your library's social media sites?

> ·        Do children use your social media sites?

> ·        Does your library have a social media policy?

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> In this one-hour webinar, you will:

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> ·        learn some copyright pointers, including two important steps you can take to protect your library from secondary liability if users post copyright-protected content in the comments sections.

> ·        understand what you may delete, and what you shouldn't delete without a lawyer's advice.

> ·        look at privacy issues of special concern with children.

> ·        see a sample policy that you can use as a starting point.

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> This one-hour webinar will be of interest to Public Service staff, Library Administrators, all staff contributing to social media, and individuals responsible for creating library policies.

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> Speaker:  Mary Minow.  Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. She edits the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site (http://fairuse.stanford.edu). 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. Minow is the first recipient of the California Library Association'sZoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004. Minow's blog is at blog.librarylaw.com.

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> If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

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> http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived       

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> Webinar: Social Media, Libraries, and the Law

> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011

> Time:     Noon, Pacific Time

> 1:00 pm, Mountain Time

> 2:00 pm, Central Time

> 3:00 pm, Eastern Time

> Speaker: Mary Minow

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> This Information has been forwarded by:

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> Susan Hanks

> Library Programs Consultant

> Library Development Services, California State Library

> 900 N Street

> Sacramento, CA  95814

> 916-653-0661     fax 916-653-8443

> shanks at library.ca.gov

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