NELA October Legal Seminar Registration

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Scheier, Robert

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Sep 14, 2022, 11:12:43 AM9/14/22

October Legal Seminar Registration Announcement

Legal Issues for Libraries: Privacy, Spaces,
Patrons & Content Seminar

Saturday, October 22nd

Speaker: Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., M.L.I.S., Ph.D., School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

Date: Saturday, October 22nd

Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm (lunch included)

Venue: In-Person: DoubleTree by Hilton, Manchester, NH

Registration Fees: $125 for NELA members, $155 for non-members

You can register for this event with a standalone registration or you can include it as an add-on while completing your conference registration for #NELA2022.

Many thanks to our generous sponsor!

This course will cover the following legal issues in libraries:

Privacy: a discussion of relevant privacy concepts in state law, review of the NELA 6-member state library patron confidentiality statutes.
The constitutional framework courts use to determine the constitutionality of a government regulation, i.e., your library policy, limiting the free speech rights of patrons.
Spaces: a discussion of library cases involving the use of meeting rooms by patrons and a review of legal principles applicable when regulating public employee speech on social media.
Patrons: a review of principles and cases applicable to regulating patron codes of behavior, including the design of constitutional measures by the library, i.e., library responses that impact patron Liberty Interests.
Content: a discussion of the extant law relating to content objections in libraries, both physical and online collections, and the immunity for online content when the library is a qualifying service provider under federal law. Time permitting a discussion of specific legislative measures attempting to control content in libraries in NELA-member states concludes the seminar.

Please bring your questions and your policies to enrich our time together!