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An Introduction to the Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide those creating copyrightable works with an opportunity to outline terms under which others can reuse them, eliminating the need for users to seek permission for their use of the ... -
Copyright and Course Reserves: Electronic and Media Reserves
In this webinar, we'll explore ways in which academic libraries can lawfully connect faculty and students with access to books, book chapters, articles, and film through electronic and media reserve services. We'll also ... -
Copyright and Course Reserves: Print Reserves
In offering print reserve services, academic libraries can help faculty and students access required and supplemental learning materials including, but not limited to books, DVDs, music CDs, and photocopies of works such ... -
Copyright Under Quarantine
Our current circumstances are complex and dynamic, and libraries of all types are doing their best to respond to the needs of the diverse communities they serve. If you’re wondering how we move forward under these conditions, ... -
TEACH-ing Online?
In recent years, K-12 and academic libraries have seen an increasing demand to provide online access to film that can be used as part of course instruction. The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) ... -
OER and Fair Use: Strange Bedfellows or BFFs?
Fair use is an exception found in U.S. copyright law that authors, educators, and librarians frequently take advantage of when using third-party works in the creation of new scholarship. Can fair use be considered when ... -
Copyright & OER: Outlining the Issues
Copyright issues come into play as open educational resources (OER) are created, and people frequently have questions about copyright and licensing when seeking to reuse, remix, and redistribute OER. To help address common ... -
Copyright and Digital Preservation: Legal and Administrative Issues
In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library ... -
Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Student’s Desire for Textbooks & the Library Budget
This chapter provides an overview of how academic libraries can adequately budget for and manage textbooks circulated to students through a print course reserve service. -
Stakes and Stakeholders: OER—Framing the Issues
This book is intended to act as a guide for would-be champions of Open Educational Resources (OER) that anyone—called to action by the example set by the chapter authors—might learn serve as OER champions and guides ... -
Coaching up the Chain of Command
An increasing number of academics, especially librarians, find that they need to teach at least the basics of copyright law and its application to a wide variety of audiences. Copyright is a complex and counter-intuitive ... -
Where do we go from here? Expanding the reach of your gaming events
"This chapter utilizes case studies from various institutions to explore methods of deepening student engagement with games. We begin with exploring ways to engage with student input, then move into how games can support ... -
Mentoring in Academic Libraries.
The authors, who have each engaged in mentoring in higher education, surveyed academic librarians in 2017 on their mentoring experiences. Those findings are placed alongside best practices drawn from the literature to ... -
Make the Grade: Integrating Making into the Higher Education Curriculum
Makerspaces provide an avenue for individuals and groups to independently create projects, learn how to use equipment, and tinker away. However, they can also be used by students to complete making-related assignments ... -
Assessment, Analytics, and Analysis: Demonstrating the Impact of LMS Embedded Librarians on Student Learning
The Ithaka S&R US Library Survey 2016 documents that library directors are committed to supporting teaching and learning services in terms of staffing and budget. They are equally committed to supporting student success, ... -
Transform the Path of a Library Career: Empowering Librarians Through Mentoring
Mentoring empowers the next generation of librarians to assume positions of leadership and expertise in our profession. Successful mentoring requires a combination of commitments from library administrators, professiona ... -
Library Services in Learning Management Systems
The learning management system (LMS) has become a standard part of the higher education infrastructure, both for online and face-to-face courses. Continuing growth in online course offerings and the mobility of ... -
Making Ends Meet: What Library Makerspaces Need to Succeed
Makerspaces can be easy to start in academic libraries: just buy a 3D printer and you’re in business, right? But before you start collecting tools and technologies, what questions should you ask, and what possibilities ...