RE: RE: [Genealib] Fwd: [Publib] Genealogy--Outside employment

[Brannan, Joyce A.]

Actually, I think it might be a lawsuit waiting to happen.  There really
are several legal and ethical issues involved.

There is no reason why a person cannot use any training gained anywhere
in any field as they wish, UNLESS written restrictions applied to the
training.  It might seem unethical to be trained to do something and
then quit and set up your own business, but people do it all the time.
That is the reason businesses have new hires sign contracts with various
restrictions such as non-competition clauses, must receive permission to
earn outside income, all  work/discoveries/creations etc. made while
working for a company belong to the company.  

Our university does not provide research service.  If we have time, we
will help someone with local genealogy research charging only for
copies.  If they want to hire someone to do the research for them, we
certainly will allow that.  If I want to start my own business
researching our archives, I would need to get permission to do so.  It
would only be ethical for me to point out that a university librarian
might be able to help them for free as time permits (not me - my main
duty is the catalog).  The university could not legally deny me access
to the same materials that they allow other researchers to use.  

Joyce Adams Brannan
Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library, Station 12
University of West Alabama
(205) 652-3677
jbrannan at uwa.edu
 
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Subject: Re: RE: [Genealib] Fwd: [Publib] Genealogy--Outside employment

In my opinion, it's a conflict of interest to train your staff and then 
have your staff use that knowledge and information for their own 
personal gain. While I would have no trouble with my staff helping 
people informally on their offtime, I think that opening a paid 
research service would not be proper.

Jeffrey

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Perry Carnegie Library
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From: Larry Naukam <lnaukam at mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
Date: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:49 am
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Fwd: [Publib] Genealogy--Outside employment
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