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• Letter to FCC in Opposition to E-Reader Waiver

  On September 4, 2014, the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers (“Coalition”) filed a Petition for Extension of Waiver (“Petition”) with the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) in response to the Commission’s January...

• An Open Letter to Stephen Colbert

  On October 27, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) wrote an open letter to Stephen Colbert in regards to Mr. Colbert criticizing LCA's amicus brief filed for Kirtsaeng v. Wiley....

• Video: “Code of Best Practices Interview: Peter Jaszi and Brandon Butler”

  American University law professors Peter Jaszi and Brandon Butler discuss the development and roll-out of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. (16 minutes)

• Video: “Code of Best Practices Interview: Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide”

  American University professors Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide discuss the development of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. (11 minutes)

• Video: “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use at the New York Public Library”

  In this four-minute video, Greg Cram of the New York Public Library discusses NYPL's application of the principles of fair use.

• SPEC Kit 343: Library Support for Faculty/Researcher Publishing (October 2014)

  By actively participating in the research and writing process, librarians can use their subject expertise to develop new roles for themselves and devise new modes of contributing to the scholarly...

• Introduction to ClimateQUAL® Lite

  ARL’s Shaneka Morris and University of Maryland professor Paul Hanges present a half-hour web seminar on ClimateQUAL Lite, a shorter form of the conventional ClimateQUAL® survey that preserves data integrity...

• SPEC Kit 342: Next-Gen Learning Spaces (September 2014)

  This SPEC Kit explores the configuration and uses of learning spaces in ARL libraries, the developments and transformations that have occurred over the past 10 years, and future plans for...

• LCA Submits Statement to House Judiciary Committee for Hearing on Chapter 12 of Title 17

  On September 16, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted a statement to the HS House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary for a hearing on Chapter 12 of Title...

• Video: “Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: What It Means for Libraries”

  In this 16-minute video, copyright lawyer Jonathan Band discusses the 2014 decision in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case and the implications for libraries.

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