2018 Poster Sessions

• Jillian Yarbrough
• Sarah Benson
• Teresa Schultz and Dana Miller
• Anita Walz
• Claudia Holland and Tina M. Adams
• Kiowa Hammons

Distance Learning: Global Students Equals a Global Perspective on Copyright Laws

Faculty have unprecedented access to information that can be shared in the online learning classrooms.  But, not all information is legal to share and to make things more challenging, copyright protection differs from country to country.    As more online classrooms operate in a global learning environment, how does an instructor balance innovation with content that is aligned not only with US laws but with the laws of any other countries, where distance students may be located?  The following poster has the purpose of creating a guide to support distance learning faculty in maintaining copyright polices within a global learning environment.

Presented by:
Jillian Yarbrough

Increasing Librarian Confidence and Comprehension in a Three-Hour Fair Use Training Session:  Assessing an Expert-Led One Shot Academic Librarian Training

This poster summarizes the results of a study of academic librarian confidence and comprehension of fair use following an expert led three-hour training session.  The results, though limited in scope, provide encouraging evidence that appropriate training, even on a time limited level, can help library professionals improve their knowledge of fair use.  The level of confidence and comprehension rose after the academic librarian participants were provided with the three-hour fair use training.  The survey results collected two weeks after the training demonstrated that some librarians had the opportunity to use the skills learned in the training workshop in their daily work.

Presented by:
Sara Benson

Permission to Publish Required: A Study of Copyright-Related Policies of U.S. Academic Special Collections

Research regarding the interplay of copyright and special collections in the past decade has often focused on digital collections, including whether and how special collections restricted usage of works in these collections even for items arguably in the public domain. However, much less research has focused on the restrictions that special collections place on physical items, especially in terms of restrictions that go above and beyond copyright law. This poster will detail a research project to study this question by analyzing the websites of special collections at large and small U.S. academic libraries to see what information is being presented to potential users. The project specifically looked at information the special collections provide about copyright, what rules they place on users making their own copies and how they may then use those copies, and general restrictions on using any copies of works located at the special collections for research or publication. Presented by: Teresa Schultz Dana Miller

Presented by:
Teresa Schultz
Dana Miller

Remix and Share: Teaching Others to Navigate Copyright Issues in Open Education & Open Licensing Contexts

Faculty and students creating or adapting openly licensed resources face numerous barriers in understanding how to appropriately handle third party works.  I developed the EMLS Model (Evaluate, Mark, License, Share) model and presentation http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78393 for non-copyright expert colleagues who needed an efficient, clear, and memorable way to teach students, staff, and faculty who want to remix, openly license, and share content from multiple sources. This poster will be based in part but will go beyond the presentation.  I'll discuss colleague responses and will also include multiple examples from emerging open education production practices and policies.

Presented by:
Anita Walz

Streaming Media in an Uncertain Legal Environment:  A Model Policy and Best Practices for Academic Libraries

Academic library collections typically include hundreds if not thousands of physical DVDs and videos, providing rich and diverse audiovisual materials to enhance teaching and learning. As DVD players become obsolete in classrooms and online course offerings increase, instructors who need access to this content frequently ask their library to provide streaming media files. But, in many cases, licenses for streaming versions of select DVDs are unavailable or when they are available, the cumulative cost to purchase these licenses is unsustainable. In short, libraries own lots of physical media that potentially cannot be viewed by their communities. The fair use exemption and TEACH Act in US Copyright Law offer a legal means of reformatting needed proprietary media for educational and scholarly purposes. This poster session will describe the criteria used to develop a streaming media policy and best practices within the framework of a fair use; the policy was written and put into practice at the authors’ former institution, George Mason University. A workflow for staff fulfilling streaming media requests will be presented, as well. Users are encouraged to build on or modify the authors’ policy and workflow to fit with their institution’s environment and objectives.

Presented by:
Claudia Holland
Tina M. Adams

Utilizing Section 108(d) and (e) for Patron Copy Requests or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 108

Section 108 of the US Copyright Act includes exceptions granting the public--under limited circumstances, access to copyright protected materials through copy services provided by libraries. The New York Public Library has been successfully utilizing the exceptions offered in Section (d) and (e) of the law through policies developed by the Copyright and Information Policy department; particularly for patron copying requests submitted through the library’s Document Delivery Services department. Section (d) allows Document Delivery to reproduce a portion of a complete work or a single article; while Section (e) allows them to service copies of complete items. The proposed poster will outline how Sections (d) and (e) have been interpreted into the library’s policies and workflow: specifically the established criteria that Document Delivery relies on for determining if a copy can be made; as well as the process of “copyright checks” by the Copyright and Information Policy Department to adhere to requirements under Section (e).

Presented by:
Kiowa Hammons