Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: Webinar: Harvard's Copyright First Responders Program

[John Burger (jburger]

ASERL Friends:

The Scholarly Communications Interest Group is pleased to host a new webinar 
for Fair Use Week 2016:  "Mitigating Risk at the Front Lines: The Library 
Copyright First Responders Program" will describe the innovative program 
offered by Harvard University Libraries.  

As we know, issues of fair use and open access, MOOCs and repositories, and the 
push to digitize means that library patrons, faculty, students, staff, need 
more guidance on copyright matters than ever. These questions are arriving at 
the library with greater frequency. A modern, 21st century library should be 
equipped to answer such questions. The Library Copyright First Responders (CFR) 
program has developed the first decentralized model of copyright expertise in 
an academic setting, relying on a hub-and-spoke model to answer questions from 
the communities associated with certain libraries. The librarians, each with 
their own focus, specialty, degrees, and training, are in the best position to 
be trained to answer © questions from their respective communities. Therefore 
copyright training should be layered on top of that subject expertise, and 
result in a systemic shift in copyright knowledge thought the academic setting 
– the library becomes the focus of copyright inquiry and policy. The 
presentation will reveal the examine the types of © questions received, note 
the thematic uniformity of large © questions, present success metrics on 
questions answered, lessons learned, and share best practices in creating a CFR 
program. 

WEBINAR:  "Mitigating Risk at the Front Lines: The Library Copyright First 
Responders Program" 
DATE / TIME:   Wednesday, February 24, 2016   --   2pm ET / 1pm central Time
REGISTER:   https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3735838517733982978  

As always, this session is free to all ASERL libraries, and it will be recorded 
for later playback.  Please share this information with interested colleagues.  
ASERL webinars are licensed under a Creative Commons 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

System Requirements
*  PC-based attendees must use Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
*  Mac®-based attendees must use Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer
*  Mobile attendees must use iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet. 
An app download may be required.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information 
about joining the webinar.

Please let me know if you have any questions or encounter any difficulties with 
our e-meeting system.  Thanks!

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
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