Hi, Holly...
Here's a somewhat informal email I circulated amongst our staff as a
first stab at a Computer and Internet Usage policy. Hope it's helpful.
DM
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Hi, everyone.
I've been working on developing some of the policies we need to govern
the use of some of our technology. I'll be publicizing formal, final
versions of these from time to time.
In the meantime, here's a couple of points you should know about:
1) Appropriate Use Of The Internet Policy:
Consider the Internet a public place. In fact, it's probably the most
public place there is. Everything you do and everywhere you go is
subject to scrutiny, logging and recording by various parties for
various purposes (many potentially malign).
Reasonable Behavior Principle:
As a good rule of thumb, behave like you're in public. Do not engage in
any behaviors or view any content you aren't prepared to be held
accountable for.
Liability Principle:
In particular, any anti-social behavior that might expose the HRMSC to
risk or legal liability will constitute a breach of this policy. An
example would be distributing illegal copies of copyrighted material
through our network. Any other use of our technological resources to
facilitate a crime would qualify too.
2) HRMSC Personal Computing Policy
Consider your office PC (and any resources you have on the network) as
equivalent to you physical workspace. Some key points to cogitate over:
Respect Of Personal Workspace Principle:
You have reasonable expectations of privacy and respect of your space.
You would not normally expect other staff to mess with it without
speaking to you first, unless there's a good reason to do so. One
consequence of this is that, as sysadmin, I will not normally "look" at
your screen without asking you first. This is an extension of common
courtesy, the same as not entering your physical office without knocking
on the door first.
HRMSC Ownership Principle:
Over-riding the above, the HRMSC ultimately owns its computing resources
the same way it owns the physical workspace, and therefore has full and
final authority to control their use. In the same way you are required
to respect HRMSC policies in the use of the building, you will also be
required to do so in the use of the computing facilities. Likewise, all
the programs, data and assets residing on the network are the property
of the HRMSC.
That's enough for now .any questions, feel free to ask.
David Marsh, HRMSC System administrator
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David Marsh
Chief Technician & System Administrator
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre & Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
E sysadmin at hrmacmillanspacecentre.com
sysadmin at vanmuseum.bc.ca
T (604) 738 7827 ext. 229
C (604) 813 9667
F (604) 736 5665
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Holly Witchey
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:15 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Cc: Douglas Hiwiller
Subject: [MCN-L] Looking for Policies--Can you help?
Hi Folks,
My apologies if I am repeating a query that's been done here time and
time again and for any cross-postings.
CMA is looking at revising staff policies regarding internet usage,
archiving of emails, storage (any policies about what you can and cannot
keep on your desk pc and on the servers), and purchasing. If you've got
great models for any of these, I'd love to see them. If you are willing
to share internal documents you can do it here on the list serv, if that
would be of help to others, or share with me off the list serv at
hwitchey at clevelandart.org.
Holly Witchey
Director, New Media Initiatives
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Blvd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Phone: 216-707-2653
Fax: 216-721-4176
Email: hwitchey at clevelandart.org
www.clevelandart.org
www.museumattic.org
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