Staff IUP Ouline 


      
 
        
 
        
 
          
Role-Play #1 
            -- Upset Teacher 

          Teacher

          While in the school library with your first grade class, you notice 
          a sixth grader sitting at a computer viewing "Miss May" from 
          the Playboy website. The computer is right in the middle of the 
          room and the screen can be seen by your whole class and other kids as 
          well. The librarian does not seem to notice what is happening. Your 
          students have not yet seen the screen, but can easily view it. You are 
          upset both because the older student is irresponsibly using the library's 
          computer but also because younger students might be exposed to images 
          you do not want her/him to see. You also have a religious and moral 
          objection to adult materials in general.  
          
 How do you react 
            and what do you say to the librarian or staff member who is at the 
            desk?

            

            
          
 Librarian

            What is the first thing you do when this teacher comes to you with 
            a complaint?

            What information do you provide him or her?

            What if that does not satisfy him or her?

            What can you do to reassure him or her that the library appreciates 
            their concerns?

            What do you say to your library director?

            
          



          
Role-Play #2 
            -- Concerned School Board Member

          District Administrator

          You have been a long-standing member of your local school board. You 
          are personally upset and concerned about the Internet in the classroom 
          and library. You lobbied to have blocking and filtering software installed 
          on all school and library computers, but despite your efforts the librarians 
          chose to provide open access to the Internet in the library. Now they 
          are asking you to approve an Internet use policy. You are attempting 
          to "tighten up" things up as much as you can. You are in the 
          library and are complaining to the head librarian about how ineffective 
          such a policy will be.  
          
 What do you say 
            to the head librarian?

            

            
          
 Librarian

            What is the first thing you do when this board member comes to you 
            with a complaint?

            What information do you provide him or her?

            What if that does not satisfy him or her?

            What can you do to reassure him or her that the library appreciates 
            their concerns?

            How do you handle this with your district administrators?

            
          



          
Role-Play #3 
            -- Vocal Influential Citizen

          Citizen

          You are either a minister of a large, conservative congregation, a civic 
          leader with lots of clout, or an elected official, who is worried/concerned 
          about the general issue of pornography in the schools and library. You 
          have grown children who live miles away from you and you haven't used 
          the Net yourself, but have heard from others all about "cyberporn" 
          and are upset. Your school library decides not to monitor kids access 
          using blocking and filtering software. You feel that they are being 
          irresponsible and helping lower the moral standard in your community. 
          You are thinking of, or already have, spoken to other civic leaders 
          about doing something " public" to make other citizens aware. 
           
          
 What do you say 
            to the librarians? 

            What do you threaten if they don't capitulate to your demands?

            

            
          
 Librarian

            What is the first thing you do when this citizen comes to you with 
            a complaint?

            What information do you provide him or her?

            What if that does not satisfy him or her?

            What can you do to reassure him or her that the library appreciates 
            their concerns?

            What do you say to your district administrators and school board?

            
          



          
Role-Play #4 
            -- Unhappy Library Staff Member

          Staff Member

          You are a longtime library staff member (either with or without a library 
          degree). Recently your library got Internet workstations. You were concerned 
          about them because you heard about the "bad stuff" on the Net, but said 
          nothing because you hadn't yet seen that "stuff" yourself. You also 
          didn't say much about your library's Internet use policy when it was 
          written. Now you have seen the Net and you agree with others in your 
          community that there are images and text that are troublesome. Mostly 
          though, you have trouble going up to teachers and students and enforcing 
          such a policy. You don't feel that it is your role be a "Net policeman". 
           
          
 What do you say 
            to your supervisor and/or head librarian?

            

            
          
 Librarian

            What is the first thing you do when this staff member comes to you 
            with a complaint?

            What information do you provide him or her?

            What if that does not satisfy him or her?

            What can you do to reassure him or her that the library appreciates 
            their concerns?

            What, if anything, do you say to your district administrators, school 
            board?