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Myers, Carla
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Copyright offices: Best practices in academic libraries
Copyright offices and their staff and those either assigned to respond to copyright questions or who have that role by default are generally library based. The responsibilities, credentials, reporting structure, staffing, ... -
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...Copyright myths, misnomers, and misconceptions
Copyright law permeates almost every aspect of librarianship and does much to help academic libraries offer a wide variety of services and resources to patrons. Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions about ... -
Failure is an option! What we can learn from unsuccessful scholarly communications initiatives.
. Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) was conceived as an open textbook of scholarly communication librarianship, which we hope may be a vehicle to increase instruction on SC topics in LIS ... -
Copyright considerations: Creation & sharing
Scholarship in the Sandbox provides multiple ways that the library can support experimentation, productive failure, and amazing successes outside of our traditional roles of teaching and providing access to resources. This ... -
An Introduction to the Creative Commons: Creation, Licensing, and Use
Copyright permeates almost every aspect of the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Given academic librarians role in championing the OER movement and promoting the ethical and responsible re-use of ... -
An Introduction to the Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide those creating copyrightable works with an opportunity to outline terms under which others can reuse them, eliminating the need for users to seek permission for their use of the ... -
Copyright and Course Reserves: Electronic and Media Reserves
In this webinar, we'll explore ways in which academic libraries can lawfully connect faculty and students with access to books, book chapters, articles, and film through electronic and media reserve services. We'll also ... -
Copyright and Course Reserves: Print Reserves
In offering print reserve services, academic libraries can help faculty and students access required and supplemental learning materials including, but not limited to books, DVDs, music CDs, and photocopies of works such ... -
Copyright Under Quarantine
Our current circumstances are complex and dynamic, and libraries of all types are doing their best to respond to the needs of the diverse communities they serve. If you’re wondering how we move forward under these conditions, ... -
TEACH-ing Online?
In recent years, K-12 and academic libraries have seen an increasing demand to provide online access to film that can be used as part of course instruction. The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) ... -
OER and Fair Use: Strange Bedfellows or BFFs?
Fair use is an exception found in U.S. copyright law that authors, educators, and librarians frequently take advantage of when using third-party works in the creation of new scholarship. Can fair use be considered when ... -
Copyright & OER: Outlining the Issues
Copyright issues come into play as open educational resources (OER) are created, and people frequently have questions about copyright and licensing when seeking to reuse, remix, and redistribute OER. To help address common ... -
Copyright and Digital Preservation: Legal and Administrative Issues
In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library ... -
Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Student’s Desire for Textbooks & the Library Budget
This chapter provides an overview of how academic libraries can adequately budget for and manage textbooks circulated to students through a print course reserve service. -
Stakes and Stakeholders: OER—Framing the Issues
This book is intended to act as a guide for would-be champions of Open Educational Resources (OER) that anyone—called to action by the example set by the chapter authors—might learn serve as OER champions and guides ... -
Coaching up the Chain of Command
An increasing number of academics, especially librarians, find that they need to teach at least the basics of copyright law and its application to a wide variety of audiences. Copyright is a complex and counter-intuitive ... -
Online Classrooms: Is the TEACH Act Enough?
As the scholarly communications universe continues to change and expand, it’s increasingly important for librarians to understand and be able to advise on complicated copyright issues in an accessible and relatable matter. ... -
Show me the Money! Or Not? Making Sense of the Fourth Factor of Fair Use.
The fair use exception, found in Section 107 of US copyright law, is frequently utilized by librarians looking to reuse the works of others to provide services and resources to patrons (e.g. digitization projects, academic ... -
Copyright in action: Creating sustainable copyright policies
Clear and consistent policies are the key to easing your copyright-related worries. In this session, attendees will discuss how to make policy determinations in a wide variety of areas, including digitization projects, ...
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