Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in a Digital World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838946542 ISBN 13: 9780838946541

Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2019

Synopsis

This book consists of 21 chapters to help librarians understand copyright issues mainly in the US, and provide information to students, researchers, and faculty. Academic librarians and lawyers from North America and Italy address the role of copyright librarians, including copyright law's role in advocacy and education for open access policies on campus, fair use, the role of academic copyright librarians, and copyright training; educational aspects, including self-study, teaching copyright basics, teaching the one-shot copyright instruction session for undergraduates, thesis and dissertation copyright instruction, and copyright and student academic integrity; research and policy aspects, including policy implications for copyright law, copyright risk literacy in higher education, promoting information literacy in social media, copyright impacts on computational text analysis, and orphan works; and international issues, particularly in Canada and Italy. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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About the Author

Sara R. Benson is the copyright librarian and an assistant professor at the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an LLM from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and an MSLIS from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the library, Sara was a lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law for ten years. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838946542
• ISBN 13: 9780838946541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401
• Editor: Benson Sara