Staff Acceptable Use Policy
Approved October 26 2021
With the spread of telecommunications throughout the modern work place, the Board recognizes that employees will shift the ways they share ideas, transmit information, and contact others. As staff members are connected to the global community, their use of new tools and systems brings new responsibilities as well as opportunities.
In general, employees are expected to communicate in a professional manner consistent with state laws governing the behavior of library employees and with federal laws governing copyrights. Electronic mail and telecommunications are not to be utilized to share confidential information about students or other employees.
Technology/Internet access is provided as an accessory to augment and enhance the efficiency as well as the overall performance of the employee’s duties. The employee shall be accountable to his/her immediate supervisor in the use of technology.
The following behaviors are not permitted on library networks:
- Providing anyone with legally restricted or confidential information on patrons or employees
- Sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures
- Assisting a campaign for election of any person to any office or for the promotion of or opposition to any ballot proposition
- Using obscene language, harassing, insulting or attacking others
- Engaging in practices that threaten the network (e.g., loading files that may introduce a virus; downloading programs or installing any software)
- Violating copyright laws
- Using others’ passwords
- Trespassing in others’ folders, documents, or files
- Using the network for personal monetary gain from outside sources (ex: Day trading or gambling)
- Allowing patrons to send us emails with attachments and asking for us to download files. Patrons should be able to access their accounts, and we can’t provide IT support for email and password recoveries.
