What type of pages from books are you talking about? Like reference
materials, histories, biographies, fiction? Because while my first
thought is that would be an interesting idea, my immediate second
thought is that publishers and authors would never allow it to happen
because of Copyright.
Michael,
I had this thought years ago as a way of slowly making microform collections
relevant again. As people find things they need in microforms collections
(which, admittedly, isn't terribly often anymore), scanning the things they
find, briefly adding some metadata about them and keeping
I am not sure this would be as much of a problem as long as it's not a publicly
searchable database (that is, people can't browse scans are there and choose
them). Of course, this restriction makes it difficult to envision how the UI
would work, but something triggered by an exact match should
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Michael Lindsey wrote:
A colleague posed an interesting idea: patrons scan book pages to deliver to
themselves by email, flash drive, etc.
What if the scans didn't disappear from memory, but went into a repository so
the next patron looking for that passage
ILL at most institutions does not keep scanned copies for future
patrons, not even in a database that's not publically searchable.
To do so would be of highly questionable legality with regard to
copyright. As would be this plan, alas.
You can easily violate copyright just sharing within the
A number of years back I pitched a project at UC Berkeley, of all
places, to do a scan on the fly project to scan tables of contents
and indexes of books returned from circulation. I even prototyped a
system for the indexing and display of the resulting pages, with
filenames derived from the
This makes a lot of sense for archives and out of copyright stuff
Dave Caroline
Thanks all. I'm consulting an attorney colleague who is also a
librarian working in copyright and digitization. I'll let you know what
I learn...
Michael Lindsey
UC Berkeley Law Library
On 4/25/2012 11:54 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
A number of years back I pitched a project at UC Berkeley, of
Salvete!
This makes a lot of sense for archives and out of copyright stuff
I agree. I also think it was stated that folks are just scanning a single
page. If that's out of a prose book, it's prolly okay.
I'm not one of your big city lawyers, and I haven't asked Roy's permission,
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:28 PM, BWS Johnson wrote:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf
So keep it to less than 10 percent of a boring non fiction book and the
copyright goons won't come for you. Experiment with poetry, articles, and
music at your own risk. ;)
Actually, the
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