The laws about copying entire works (as opposed to creating clips) are pretty specific and stringent. Individuals are not allowed to make copies under most circumstances. There are exceptions of course: fair use is one (but the criteria weigh against copying whole works under a fair use claim); making a copy of an item you own personally, for your own archival purposes (i.e., not to give away), is another, etc.

Libraries can create “preservation” copies of material in “obsolete” formats, so long as we are unable to buy an unused copy at a “reasonable” price. In other words, we can create preservation copies of VHS tapes (being an obsolete format), if the film is not available unused as a VHS or as a newer format such as DVD/Blu-Ray, etc. Furthermore, if the library does make a preservation copy, that copy normally can only be used within the library.

• Classrooms and labs: Plans for upgrades: Currently there are 44 “non-smart” classrooms on campus, plus several other spaces used as classrooms during the Language Schools. What is the best method and what should be the schedule and priority for converting them? LIS will convening a group this fall to prioritize upgrade requests, resulting in a budget request for conversion. This group will also be looking at near-future technologies such as small portable projectors that might impact the upgrade decisions.
• Ebooks: 44,000 ebooks added to MIDCAT. Can be read online in a browser or downloaded for offline use. We save money by paying only for the books that are used.
• Summon: Your students are using it – do you know what it is? Do you like it? Summon is the Library’s Google-like search box. It’s a single search for books, newspaper articles, journal articles and citations, and more. Summon will try to link directly to full-text if we have it. It searches MIDCAT, the Library’s Digital Collections, and over 90% of our journal articles. For more details see the What’s Summon link next to the search box on the library homepage.
• Scopus: Replaces Web of Science. Similar coverage and easier to use. Thoughts?
• Innovation: Digital humanities, cyberinfrastructure: Three College-wide task forces on innovation have been created, each of which will have LIS representation. Additionally, LIS is forming a group to provide services to the community relating to digital resources and ideas relating to their use in a liberal-arts pedagogy. The LIS group, led by our Head of Collections and Digital Initiatives, is still in its formative stages, but they will be charged with thinking about the services needed and how best to deliver them. This may include an inventory of what is already happening on campus. LIS is investigating how digital resources from special collections, the lecture archive and other sources could or should be integrated. Midd Lab may fit in as sort of a “PR” arm to highlight interesting uses of digital technology in humanities research and pedagogy.
• Moodle and course hub: Is up and running. The number of classes using either Moodle or WorPress is similar in number to the numbers of Segue sites in the past. Segue will become read only by the spring and migration tools, or the ability to archive material on the sites as static HTML or PDF will be available in the spring. Workshops will be offered during J-term, so look for future announcements or see go/lisworkshops. Also short Moodle video tutorials are available on Lynda.com http://go/lynda.
• Google/MSLive evaluation: Shel Sax is heading up an evaluation of moving email hosting from the college to the cloud. LIS will be evaluating two services – Google and MicroSoft Live. There are a number of questions/issues: cost, ease of migration, functionality, service level agreements with the vendors, etc. Should we change mail services, there will be a way of migrating any information stored in our current system and we will retain a middlebury.edu address.
• Data management/storage
• Liaison Program
• Open access
• Help Desk
• Mobile Midd site/portal

I’m such a passive technology user -on principle, not just out of laziness- that I can’t think of any topics at the moment. Everything we discussed at the last meeting, and that you outline for the meeting I just missed, is of interest to me. I will be sure to take a Noodle workshop this summer, just in case this would serve my ends.

–Daniel Scharstein – how to distribute to class?
–Terry – can print article, save as pdf and do the same type of thing one currently does with journal articles. Will have to inquire with publisher, but from talking to other colleges who have done this, they’ve found that they’ve been able to do the same things that they’ve done in the past.

I’m following up to say that we’ve contacted the publisher and yes, articles accessed via tokens can be saved by faculty and distributed to students as long as the article is password protected from the general public. And so our usual ways of doing this: eres, posting on a course website, etc. are just fine.

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