I. Greet visitors and make them feel welcomed.
Every customer interaction is an opportunity to showcase the College and the Library. To create a welcoming and positive work environment, we will...
II. Respect cultural and other personal differences
Library staff serves an inclusive community with customers who come from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, practices, generations, and languages. To show respect for personal differences library staff will ...
III. Evaluate and clarify a visitor's expectations
Library Staff strives to fully understand our visitor's questions and needs. To best understand their needs, we will...
IV. Thank and verify that questions have been answered
Library staff take responsibility to ensure that visitor's expectations have been met. To verify needs have been met...
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Booth Library is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of those who use our library materials, spaces, and services.
It is the ethical responsibility of library employees to protect the privacy of library patrons. According to the American Library Association Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records, "Confidentiality extends to information sought or received, and materials consulted, borrowed , acquired, and includes database search records, reference interviews, circulation records, interlibrary loan records, and other personally identifiable uses of library materials, facilities, or services."
Student Employees who are asked to disclose confidential circulation records should immediately refer the question to the Library Director.
"The ALA Code of Ethics translates the values of intellectual freedom that define the profession of librarianship into broad principles that may be used by individual members of that profession as well as by others employed in a library as a framework for dealing with situations involving ethical conflicts."
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1. Libraries provide the highest level of service to all library users through appropriate and usefully organized resources; equitable service policies; equitable access; and accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests.
2. Libraries uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources.
3. Libraries protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.
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