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ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2009-2010

ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2009–2010 presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 61 medical libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada.

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Link to the online ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2009–2010 on the ARL Digital Publications website.

Terms:2012, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, Assessment, Gary Roebuck, Martha Kyrillidou, Publications, Shaneka Morris, Text

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Librarians/General Overview

pdf fair-use-code-faq-libs.pdf

Terms:2012, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, Copyright, Fair Use, Publications, Report, Text

Research Library Issues, no. 278 (March 2012)

RLI issue 278 includes:

Leading a Full Life: Reflections on Several Decades of Work, Family, and Accomplishment
Scenario Planning: Developing a Strategic Agenda for Organizational Alignment
Bringing Scenario Planning Home to KU
The ARL Balanced Scorecard Initiative Meets the ARL 2030 Scenarios

Terms:2012, Balanced Scorecard, Library Administration, Publications, Research Library Issues, Scenario Planning, Text

A New Day for Website Archiving 2.0

Memorandum discussing legal issues in website archiving.

pdf band-new-day-for-archiving-2.0-23feb12.pdf

Terms:2012, Copyright, Jonathan Band, Publications, Report, Text

Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee re: H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act (Feb. 24, 2012)

Letter opposing the Research Works Act.

pdf lt-researchworksact-24feb12.pdf

Terms:2012, Access to Federally Funded Research, Legislation, Letter, Public Access Policies, Publications, Text

Academic Research on Fair Use and Codes of Best Practices

Flyer discussing the advantages of an approach to determining fair use that is rooted in professional consensus, rather than (for example) negotiating standards with right holders or consulting legal experts.

pdf fair-use-code-academic-research.pdf

Terms:2012, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, Copyright, Fair Use, Publications, Text

Fair Use and Education: The Way Forward

The ability to make reasonable "fair use" of copyrighted material is both economically and culturally important to the enterprise of education. In asserting fair use, teachers, librarians, and others cannot rely on a claim of "educational exceptionalism," for which there is no clear basis in U.S. Copyright law. Instead, they should seek to take advantage of current trends in copyright caselaw, including the marked trend toward preferring uses that are "transformative," where the amount of content used is appropriate to the transformative purpose. Over twenty years, we have accumulated considerable information about what constitutes "transformativeness," and members of the education community are well-positioned to provide persuasive narratives explaining how educational uses significantly repurpose and add value to the copyrighted content they incorporate. Published in Law & Literature, Vol. 24 No. 3 (Fall 2012).

pdf jaszi-education-and-fair-use.pdf

Letter to Michael F. Doyle re: H.R. 4004, “The Federal Research Public Access Act” (Feb. 14, 2012)

Letter from higher education and library associations thanking Representative Doyle for introducing H.R. 4004, "The Federal Research Public Access Act."

pdf oawg-house-frpaa-14feb2012.pdf

Terms:2012, Access to Federally Funded Research, Legislation, Letter, Public Access Policies, Publications, Text