Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: ASERL Mini-Grant: Guidelines for making Fair Use decisions within Resource Sharing contexts

[John Burger (jburger]

ASERL Friends:

Today we are announcing the availability of our first-ever mini-grant:  An 
award of up to $2,500 to develop guidelines to aid librarians in making Fair 
Use decisions within Resource Sharing contexts. As part of our work with other 
regional research library consortia exploring various facets of Fair Use policy 
over the past several months, we have found a need for an expert review of the 
application of Fair Use principles within library Resource Sharing contexts. 

With this mini-grant, we seek to support the development of well-researched and 
documented guidelines, a checklist, or similar tool to aid Resource Sharing 
librarians and other library staff to determine if a request from another 
library or unaffiliated patron to borrow materials falls within the bounds of 
Fair Use, or if copyright/license fees should be paid to the rightsholder.  
[For an example of this type of document, see the "Intellectual Property Rights 
Strategy for Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups" 
developed by the Triangle Research Libraries Network 
http://www.trln.org/IPRights.pdf .] The end product of this mini-grant must be 
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0 
International license, including attribution to the authors and to ASERL as the 
sponsoring organization.

The full annoncement is available at http://bit.ly/1epZoOn, and also attached 
here.  The deadline for applications is June 1, 2014.  Please share with 
interested colleagues.

Thank you.


--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
   ASERL
   Box 90182  /  411 Chapel Drive
   125 Bostock Library
   Durham, NC 27708
   919-681-2531 - telephone
   919-681-0805 -- fax

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