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Book on copyright for libraries, archives, and museums

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Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon was published today by Cornell University Library. A description of the 260 page book with instructions on how to download a free PDF copy follows. Printed copies are also available for $39.95 from CreateSpace and, in a few weeks, from Amazon. Please consider asking your employer to get a print copy if you can't afford one yourself. While written with digital issues in mind, there is much in the book that would be useful to anyone who wants to understand better copyright issues in American cultural institutions. From http://communications.library.cornell.edu/com/news/PressReleases/manual.cfm: Cornell University Library Publishes New Digitization Manual 'Copyright and Cultural Institutions' Will Assist Cultural Heritage Institutions ITHACA, N.Y. (Oct. 29, 2009) - How can cultural heritage institutions legally use the Internet to improve public access to the rich collections they hold? "Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums," a new book by published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question. Based on a well-received Australian manual written by Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon of the University of Melbourne, the book has been developed by Cornell University Library's senior policy advisor Peter B. Hirtle, along with Hudson and Kenyon, to conform to American law and practice. The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Many institutions are developing publicly accessible Web sites that allow users to visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. It is imperative that staff in libraries, archives, and museums understand fundamental copyright principles and how institutional procedures can be affected by the law. "Copyright and Cultural Institutions" was written to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law. It addresses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of "risk assessment" when conducting any digitization project. Case studies on digitizing oral histories and student work are also included. Hirtle is the former director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, and the book evolved from his recognition of the need for such a guide when he led museum and library digitization projects. After reading Hudson and Kenyon's Australian guidelines, he realized that an American edition would be invaluable to anyone contemplating a digital edition. Anne R. Kenney, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, noted: "The Library has a long tradition of making available to other professionals the products of its research and expertise. I am delighted that this new volume can join the ranks with award-winning library publications on digitization and preservation." As an experiment in open-access publishing, the Library has made the work available in two formats. Print copies of the work are available from CreateSpace, an Amazon subsidiary. In addition, the entire text is available as a free download through eCommons, Cornell University's institutional repository, and from SSRN.com, which already distributes the Australian guidelines. Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009. ISBN: <http://cornell.worldcat.org/search?q=+ti%3A+au%3A+kw%3A0935995102&qt=advanc…>978-0-935995-10-7. Price: $39.95. Available for purchase at <https://www.createspace.com/3405063>https://www.createspace.com/3405063, and for free download at: <<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1495365>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1495365> and <<http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142>http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142>. -- June Samaras KALAMOS BOOKS (For Books about Greece) 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com www.kalamosbooks.com

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Book on U.S. copyright for libraries, archives, and museums published

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DiSCmap: Digitisation in special collections: mapping, assessment, prioritisation

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dooley,Jackie <dooleyj(a)oclc.org> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM An interesting new study from JISC and RIN in the U.K. to develop priorities for digitization nationwide, including looking at users' needs. Jackie Dooley Consulting Archivist, OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership dooleyj(a)oclc.org 949.492.5060 (office/home) 949.295.1529 (mobile) ------- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/discmap.aspx JISC, in collaboration with the Research Information Network < http://www.rin.ac.uk/> 1 (RIN), has commissioned a study that will identify the key priorities for future digitisation of content held within UK Higher Education institutions. The aims of the study are to: 1. 1)identify priority collections for potential digitisation housed within UK HE's libraries, archives, museums as well as faculties and departments 2. 2)assess users' needs and demand for special collections to be digitised across all disciplines, including the life and physical sciences as well as the arts, humanities and social sciences 3. 3)produce a synthesis of available knowledge about users' needs with regard to usability and format of digitised resources 4. 4)provide recommendations for a strategic approach to digitisation within the wider context and activity of leading players both in the public and commercial sector DiSCmap <http://discmap.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/> 2 is being carried out by the Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde, in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management, Manchester Metropolitan University. Download the final report < http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/discmap_final…> 3and appendices < http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/discmap_final…> 4.

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Εθνικού Οπτικοακουστικού Αρχείου, με βιντεάκι για την 27η Οκτωβρίου (Παγκόσμια Ημέρα UNESCO για τη διατήρηση της Ο/Α Κληρονομιάς)

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EΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ/ENGLISH 27th October 2009 - UNESCO World Day for Audio-Visual Heritage The Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive (HeNAA) is a new institution established in 2006 more 27th October 2009 - UNESCO World Day for Audio-Visual Heritage The Hellenic National Audio-Visual Archive celebrates the 27th October 2009 - UNESCO World Day for Audio-Visual Heritage IASA 2009 Annual Conference Towards a new kind of archive? The digital philosophy in audiovisual archives! When IASA was founded 40 years ago few could imagine the realities with which today’s audiovisual archives are confronted. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the digital age for archives, libraries and museums is not an option, but a reality. http://www.avarchive.gr/ ======================= June Samaras KALAMOS BOOKS (For Books about Greece) 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com www.kalamosbooks.com

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Digitize or die: summary report on the 10/09 ARL/CNI forum

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Dupont <cdupont(a)atlas-sys.com> Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM Following up on Terry's posting on the recent ARL/CNI fall forum on special collections, you can read a summary of one of the sessions, "Special Collections as Laboratories for Researchers and Students," by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle's "Wired Campus" blog: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Special-Collections-as/8490/ I believe that the sessions were audio-recorded and will soon be made available as webcasts. -Christian Dupont

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Digitize or die: summary report on the 10/09 ARL/CNI forum

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Terry Belanger <tb3e(a)virginia.edu> Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM On Thursday and Friday, 15 and 16 October, <http://www.arl.org/>The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the <http://www.cni.org/>Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) co-hosted a two-day forum at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington DC. The conference's title was "< http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum09/forum09schedule.shtml>An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age," and its goal was to build on the work of ARL's <http://www.arl.org/rtl/speccoll/spcollwg/>Special Collections Working Group, focusing attention on opportunities available in the digital environment for leveraging the strengths of special collections (SC), making them more widely accessible, and identifying strategies for advancing this goal. The forum was held immediately after the fall ARL meeting, and a good many university librarians attended, some of them accompanied by their head of special collections. If there's any interest, In a day or so I'll post a more detailed (and more evaluative) conference report on ExLibris. Meanwhile, here follows a summary of some of the themes that emerged from the forum's presentations and discussions: Justification by Use <> The use of the term "archives" is loosening to include what have traditionally been thought of as rare books or printed ephemera. <> SC are justified primarily by use: as Vonnegut put it in "The Sirens of Titan," "The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody." Use is the end of all archival effort. <> The cost of digitization is rapidly decreasing. <> Users are not particularly interested in which institution owns the original on which a digital surrogate relies; they are far more concerned with getting unfettered access to the surrogates. <> Digital surrogates make scholars and students more productive. Faculty members (especially younger ones) are open to new ideas about course content and in using original materials in conjunction with digital surrogates. The digitization of materials increases their use, not only via online surrogates but also of the originals in reading rooms: the digital surrogate dignifies and legitimizes the physical object behind it. <> Making hidden collections more visible requires not only a subject knowledge of these SC but also an understanding of the professions of those potentially interested in using them. We need to find efficient and productive ways to bring scholars and students into the development of SC, for example by bringing them into the cataloging process. Silos vs Mainstreaming <> An insistence on the distinctiveness of individual SC (and the usage restrictions that accompany them) will, if taken to an extreme, hedge and silo these SC and discourage cross-institution cooperation. It is competition that drives us, not cooperation (cf. our football teams). Why are we all developing our own, individual websites? Why not use Wikipedia? <> We need new and more reliable ways of linking SC across institutional boundaries. Delivering special collections to the world is very different from bringing resources to local audience; it's the difference between a tunnel and a megaphone. We need stronger collaborative networks: durable associations of autonomous entities collaborating to achieve common or compatible goals while maintaining flexibility, building common solutions to common problems. <> Online we can put the past back together again, though we shouldn't try to recreate in the new environment the same institutions we have in the physical world. Roadblocks to Progress <> Roadblocks to increased use include a stubborn adherence to object-oriented rather than to user-oriented attitudes, a disinclination to decrease cataloging backlogs if the price is minimum cataloging, and a fear of the born-digital. <> Until recently, SC have for the most part been protected from budgeting decisions based on frequency of use, but this policy is changing. The conventional wisdom that SC will enhance the reputation of institutions has come into question. <> Deaccession continues to be an attractive proposition to resource providers controlling the destiny of SC. If SC are underfunded these days, it's our own fault, for insufficiently promoting the value of our collections and the services we provide. The Good News <> A new SC profession has emerged over the past couple of decade, in relation both to institutions and to users. Progress in the field has been rapid. This would have been a different conference even five years ago. Terry Belanger . 310 East Market St (Apt A) . Charlottesville, VA 22902 email belanger(a)virginia.edu . phone 434-296-9917

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Newberry Library Fellowships

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FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES 2010-2011 The Newberry's fellowships support humanities research in our collections. Our collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric. If you study the humanities, chances are good we have something for you. We promise you remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs. LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS These awards support research and writing by scholars with a doctorate. Their purpose is to help fellows develop or complete larger-scale studies that draw on our collections, and to foster intellectual exchange among fellows and the Library community. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400. Long-term applications are due January 11, 2010 Major long-term fellowship funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel. SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. Their purpose is to help researchers study specific materials at the Newberry that are not readily available to them elsewhere. Short-term fellowships are usually awarded for a period of one month. Most are restricted to scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Stipends are $1600 per month. NEW: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The individual scholars on a team awarded a fellowship will each receive a full stipend of $1600 per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member. Short-term applications are due March 1, 2010. We also offer exchange fellowships with British, French and German institutions, a fellowship for American Indian women pursuing any post-graduate education, and a fellowship for published independent scholars. For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html Or contact: Research and Education The Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610 312.255.3666 research(a)newberry.org

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18th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference: Event of Center for Hellenic Studies - Harvard University

by Panos Georgiou

18th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference « Scientific Digital Content: Production, Provision, Preservation» 5-6 November 2009, University of Patras, Library & Information Center, Conference & Cultural Center of the University of Patras <http://conference2009.lis.upatras.gr/> http://conference2009.lis.upatras.gr/ Center for Hellenic Studies-CHS (in Nagplion, Greece) of Harvard University, USA: Mission in the 21st century and modern integrated methods of digitalisation of old manuscripts Wednesday, 4th of November 2009, 17:30 - 19: 30 Lecture Room of the Library & Information Centre of the University of Patras Dear colleagues the 18th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference will host a special presentation event of the Center for Hellenic Studies-CHS (in Nagplion, Greece) of Harvard University, USA under the general title: Mission in the 21st century and modern integrated methods of digitalisation of old manuscripts The event will focus on the activities of CHS in Nafplion, and most particular on these of digitalisation of old manuscripts. Distinguishing members of CHS team will give a detailed presentation of the Homer Multitext Project and the digitization of code Venetus A at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. The event will take place in the Lecture Room of the Library & Information Centre of the University of Patras, on Wednesday, 4th of November 2009, 17:30 - 19: 30. Participation to the event is free to everyone, but you are kindly requested to register to the event by emailing your name and contact details to Mrs Fiori Papadatou at fiori(a)lis.upatras.gr, tel: +00302610969628. The analytical program of event has as follows: 17.30 - 17.50: The Centre for Hellenic Studies of the University Harvard and its in the 21 century, Ioannis Petropoulos, Assistant Professor of Classic Literature, University of Thrace 17.50 - 19.10: Rediscovering Homer: Manuscript Digitization and the Homer Multitext Project Christopher W. Blackwell, Professor of Classics: Furman University, Greenville, Editor for Technical Projects: Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington, Casey Dué Hackney, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, Executive Editor, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., Grigoris Katsaros, CHS IT Administrator. 19.10 - 19.30 Questions and discussion.

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ACRL/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries

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Dear colleagues: The ACRL Board approved, at their July 2009 meeting, a revised edition of the ACRL/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries, available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/jointstatement.cfm __________________________ Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. RBMS Chair 2009-2010 | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003 | 202.675-0369 djleslie(a)folger.edu | http://www.folger.edu <http://www.folger.edu/>

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Viruses & ALA addresses

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Everett <ewilkie(a)ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM Subject: [EXLIBRIS-L] MODERATOR--Viruses & ALA addresses To: EXLIBRIS-L(a)listserv.indiana.edu I'm posting this to both Exlibris and the RBMS list. Sorry for the duplication. I'm not really sure what happened, but several weeks ago a large number of messages supposedly from various adressess @ala.org began circulating. These messages come from a variety of ALA addressess, both personal accounts and others used for RBMS list administrative purposes. These messages all contain links that if clicked will load a virus on your computer. Below is a sample of brief headers from one of the messages: Message Details: From: "123greetings.com" <rbms-request(a)ala.org> To: <rbms-request(a)ala.org> Subject: You've received a postcard This particular round is not very sophisticated and probably shouldn't fool anybody, but the important point is that those ALA addressess are now out there in the great spam/phishing world and will probably reappear in other contexts that may not be so obvious. My point is that you should use extreme caution opening any attachment on a message from any address @ ala.org. My shopworn advice: Be careful opening attachments or following links, especially those in messages from people you *know.* Best, Everett P.O. Box 11 Bluffton, TX 78607 325-379-1810 717-419-9419 (cell) <ewilkie(a)ix.netcom.com> "Highs today in the upper Hades." --Texas weather forecaster

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