I'm afraid I have to agree with David on this one. Mail that is addressed to
you at a place of business or at a school is different from mail that is
addressed to you at home. I'm no lawyer, but I think that since the school
owns the mailboxes, they have the authority to control what goes in them,
just as they do with email. And if we're talking about a magazine that was
purchased with school funds, you are simply the administrator of the
materials, not the owner. I know of districts that have cracked down on
personal business via school email. I think print mail may fall under the
same kinds of rules. I don't, however, believe that "anyone" in the school
could make such decisions about the mail. I think it would have to be a
person of authority such as a principal or his/her agent acting on the
principal's instructions.
Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher.
----Original Message Follows----
From: kaTe <cag02@EARTHLINK.NET>
Reply-To: kaTe <cag02@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Share: SI Swimsuit Issue - not coming your way...
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:55:07 -0700
wait, tell me that you aren't implying that -anyone- in the school can
decide what MAIL goes in our box and what doesn't? if it is addressed to
me, or to the library, then *I* get to decide if I want to read it or not,
but no one else can decide that. It would seem to me that mail tampering is
mail tampering whether it is done at my house or at my place of business.
Federal offense on any level. unless someone has some legal statute that
defines a difference.
this in light of the large censorship discussion we just had? someone else
once again gets to decide what goes to the library and what doesn't?
kate
DiGregorio, David wrote:
>Those mailboxes, just as your email, belong to the school.
>
>David Di Gregorio
>Supervisor Library Media Services
>Tenafly High School
>Tenafly, NJ USA
>www.librarymedia.net 201-816-6617
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: School Library Media & Network Communications
>[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Debra Kay Logan
>Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:26 AM
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Re: Share: SI Swimsuit Issue - not coming your way...
>
>I agree with Bonnie that the pre-censorship is disturbing.
>
>Oddly enough, when last year's SI issue came but was not put in the
>library
>mailbox (again), I had finally succeeded in convincing the
>administration
>that it is not appropriate for office personnel to censor mail addressed
>to
>the library.
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Deb Logan
>Librarian/Media Specialist
>Mount Gilead High School
>Mount Gilead, OH
>MAILTO:jd3logan@bright.net
>http://www.deblogan.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bonnie Fulmer [mailto:Bonnie.Fulmer@SPACKENKILLSCHOOLS.ORG] Sent:
>Friday, March 09, 2007 8:06 AM
>Subject: Re: Share: SI Swimsuit Issue - not coming your way...
>
>Although I cringe at the SI swimsuit issue every year and provide it
>only on request (which rarely happens, happily), I have a philosophical
>problem with a publisher choosing to not to send selected issues of
>their periodicals to a library that has paid for a subscription.
>Perhaps Time will stop including its "Man of the Year" issue, or US News
>and World Report will stop including its "Best Hospitals" issue?
>Regardless, if a consumer has paid in good faith for an entire year, he
>should receive the entire year's subscription. Whether to put every
>issue out should be a local library decision, not a unilateral
>publisher's one. If a library chooses to throw it away after they have
>paid for it, well, then, that's the librarian's selection policy
>decision (in honor of our recent censorship/selection discussion)
><grin>.
>
>I propose we inundate SI with claims for the "missing issue" or demands
>for refunds, in order to make them re-think this decision. I followed
>the link in the Library Journal article to the SI site, entered the info
>from my mailing label, and then wrote the following, which you are
>welcome to cut and paste:
>
>According to a recent Library Journal article, my library will not be
>receiving the SI swimsuit issue. I authorized payment for the entire
>year of Sports Illustrated; I expect to receive either EVERY issue
>published that year, or a refund for any and all issue(s) you choose not
>to send. Please let me know if I will be receiving:
> The swimsuit issue
> A refund/credit for the newsstand cost of the withheld issue
> An extension of one issue on our subscription. Thank you.
> Bonnie Fulmer, Librarian
> Spackenkill High School
>
>I think we need to send publishers a message... This is a slippery
>slope, whether you really want the SI swimsuit issue or not! Bonnie
> _________________ _________________
> || \/ ||
> || Bonnie Fulmer, | Librarian ||
> || Spackenkill | High School ||
> || 112 Spack- | enkill Road ||
> || Poughkeepsie | NY 12603 ||
> || voice: (845) | 463-7810 ||
> || fax: (845) | 463-7817 ||
> |Bonnie.Fulmer@spackenkillschools.org||
> ||_________________/\________________||
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: School Library Media & Network Communications
>[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Deb Logan
>Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:51 AM
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Share: SI Swimsuit Issue - not coming your way...
>
>Today's Library Link of the Day is to a story on SI's decision to not
>send the Swimsuit Issue to libraries and academic institutions.
>
>
>
>>http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422612.html
>>Sports Illustrated Withholds Swimsuit Issue from Libraries, Schools
>>[Library Journal]
>>
>>................................................................
>>Library Link of the Day
>>http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ (archive, rss, subscribe options)
>>
>>
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Deb Logan
>Librarian/Media Specialist
>Mount Gilead High School
>Mount Gilead, OH
>MAILTO:jd3logan@bright.net
>http://www.deblogan.com
>
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