[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Head of Library Systems, University of Richmond

2011-05-04 Thread Butterfield, Kevin
The University of Richmond has an exciting career opportunity for a Head of Library Systems within the Boatwright Library. This is an exempt level position that includes faculty status. The Head of Library Systems reports directly to the Director of Bibliographic Digital Services and

[CODE4LIB] Save the Date: Collecting Repositories and E-Records Workshop, August 23, 2011

2011-05-04 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
CREW: Collecting Repositories and E-Records Workshop Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Organized by AIMS Project Partners (University of Virginia, Yale University, Stanford University and University of Hull) Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ABOUT THE WORKSHOP As

[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Digital Preservation Officer/Librarian

2011-05-04 Thread Binkley, Peter
The U of Alberta Libraries have extended the search for a Digital Preservation Officer/Librarian. This is a new position, open to those with and without the MLIS, and to international applicants. The core of it is policy and planning for our digital preservation activities, with the first target

[CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread don warner saklad
How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?... not the image format if available in digital. Guidelines for interlibrary loan practices need to distinguish digital pdf from image pdf where journal articles are

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Shuping
What do you mean by digital format exactly? Andrew Shuping Emerging Technologies/Interlibrary Loan Library Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University Robert Frost - In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM, don warner saklad

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread Jody DeRidder
Sounds like he wants to request a searchable PDF as opposed to one composed of only images. --jody What do you mean by digital format exactly? Andrew Shuping Emerging Technologies/Interlibrary Loan Library Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University Robert Frost - In three words I can sum up

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread Ranti Junus
It depends on the license agreement between the publisher and the lending library. Many publishers do not allow library ILL to simply download the PDF directly from their journal article page and send it to the requestor. A lot of publishers allow the lending library to download and print the

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Shuping
Ranti is correct in what she says about publishers. As an ILL person it drives me nuts that there are so many loopholes just to be able to send stuff from our databases via ILL. Some of them say you can but you have to download it, print it, and then scan it again. It isn't the ILL practices

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread karim boughida
It seems that it is also related to copyright restrictions and general counsel interpretations. If you print and re-scan. You're safer. photocopy rules apply and not electronic copy. Don't ask me more. I'm not a lawyer. Karim Boughida Twitter:kboughida kbough...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal article where a digital format is available for the article?...

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Shuping
Copyright rules would apply regardless of format and general counsel interpretations wouldn't really apply to this scenario. Andrew Shuping Robert Frost - In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:17 PM, karim boughida