<div>I was the final session of the day, the joint session. Let me just say that taking the mic from your County President who just announced that severance packages were going to be offered the following week and that layoffs were likely was extreemly difficult. Yep, life has been interesting (in the Chinese sense) since returning from Pennsic.</div>
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<div>After stumbing around for a few minutes, everything went well. People were even engaged in what we were doing.</div>
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<div>The vast majority of our staff are front line folks with a variety of backgrounds ranging from high school graduates to multiple masters degrees with masters level librarians in the minority. I share that to set the context for my session.</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">York County Library System In-Service Ethics Session</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">DATE August 14, 2009</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">LOCATION Martin Library</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">LEARNING OBJECTIVES After attending this session colleagues will be able to:</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">1) recognize their personal values </p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">2) understand how values, morals & ethics work together</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">3) review our profession's fundamental ethics</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">4) apply ethical behavior to customer interactions</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">5) hold themselves, coworkers and volunteers accountable to our ethics</p></td></tr>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #3a4a7e; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">6) agree on future ethical tool or training needs</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Session Agenda:</p>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Introduction </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">15 min</span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Aesop's fable </span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What is the moral of the story? What are stories like these able to teach?</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What we're going to do & what you'll get out of the session</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What are morals, values & ethics?</span></li></ul>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Clarify personal values </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">10 min </span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Identifying my values activity <strong><font color="#33cc00">The president's address both cut into the session's time and threw me off. We did not do this activity together, but they took it home.</font></strong></span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Review ALA's Code of Ethics </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">20 min</span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Read through the Code of Ethics<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>5min <font color="#009900"><strong>There were more than 80 people attending, so I prearranged 8 group leaders. Each read an article of the Code and lead a small group.</strong></font></span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Small group activity ~ What does it mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How do we demonstrate it? 15 min</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Share one or two discussions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></li></ul>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Practice applying ethics ~ small group activity ~ hypothetical situations </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">15 min</span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Share one or two scenarios</span></li></ul>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Conclusion </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>10 min</span></li>
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<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Review what we did</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What questions are left unanswered?</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How should we continue these kinds of conversations?</span></li>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">LL email follow-up</span></li></ul>
<li style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Evaluation & take-aways</span></li></ul></div>