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An Art Historian Uses the #LibrariansCode to Advocate for Open Access
Laurie Monahan is a professor on a mission. She’s an art historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and for years she’s been working with colleagues to develop an...
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Wash. U. St. Louis Gets Double Exposure for Its Graphic History Library
When museum curator Sky Lacerte saw a conference session about how some archives use photo overlays to show how landscapes and buildings have changed over time, she was inspired to...
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Starting a Copyright Conversation at Yale
As a participant in early meetings with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation about worthwhile projects in support of libraries, Yale University Librarian Susan Gibbons was there at the inception of...
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UC Boulder Takes VHS Tapes Back to the Future With the #Librarianscode
This is the first blog post in a series highlighting some of the fair use success stories we’re beginning to hear from librarians using the Code to move past fear...
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The #Librarianscode Comes to Life at UCLA, UC Berkeley, U. of Florida, Texas A&M, and Yale
Today we are very happy to debut a collection of videos with directors of ARL member libraries talking about how the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic...
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Justices Consider the Horribles in Kirtsaeng
On Monday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, a case in which the key issue is the proper scope of the...
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Good News for Libraries in Latest Round of DMCA Exceptions
Last Friday the Librarian of Congress officially issued the latest iteration of rules (here) describing exceptions to the general rule in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that it is...
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Lessons From the Siege
At last year’s Fall Membership Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries here in Washington, D.C., the refrain was, “libraries are under siege.” Copyright litigation against libraries was proceeding on...
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ARL Issue Brief: MOOCs + Libraries = ???
Research libraries have a stake in MOOCs - who owns the course content, what kinds of materials are incorporated into the virtual classroom and assigned for outside reading, what happens...
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Judge Baer channels #librarianscode
In what can only be described as a total victory for libraries, Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York held in an opinion published yesterday that the...
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