Well, I agree with you about people who want to use it for free. In my reserve role I've been playing the copyright police for a long time. I am familiar with what one can and can't do and I don't hesitate to advise faculty who want to use our services.
It is an ethics issue and the State of Connecticut comes down pretty hard on those who violate ethics or laws. To help faculty understand this issue I worked with our Ethics & Compliance Office to include a short segment on copyright for faculty in the next mandatory round of ethics training. I'm hoping it has some impact. I'll let you all know if I live through it. LOL. Jo Ann Jo Ann Reynolds Reserve Services Coordinator University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library Storrs, CT 860-486-1406 jo_ann.reyno...@uconn.edu Question Reality -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Albrecht Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:18 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Fwd: [Videonews] More on Institutional Streaming] At 03:58 PM 1/26/2010, you Jo Ann wrote: >It's not that I don't empathize with some of your responses but . . >. Honestly, we used to wash clothes by boiling them in pots of >water or pounding them on rocks, there used to be no such thing as >prepackaged food and frozen tv dinners, and we used to use horses >for transportation. Once you CAN do something differently through >technology AND it creates some kind of time or labor savings, it's >just about impossible to stick your finger in the dyke and stop the >"new" way of doing things from moving forward. It doesn't mean it's >easy or goes smoothly at first but to quote a movie line, "if you >build it, they will come". I don't hear a mass outcry re using >whiteboards instead of chalkboards, or using courseware to >supplement, or even replace the classroom. Duly noted. And yet whiteboards and automatic washing machines don't have rights issues the way streamed video content does. I didn't say nor mean to imply that no one should move forward into new technology. New technology is cool! What I am saying is this: 1) people should be HONEST about wanting it, rather than saying they need it or have an inalienable right to it; and 2) as I said previously, if people do want to do it the new way (or believe they need to), then they need to be prepared to PAY a fee for that new way of doing things. Insisting it's a right and/or doing it anyway without proper compensation is the part I'm talking about, as well as the excuses which are given, which tend to be that they "have" to have it the new way, rather than that they simply want to. 'S'all I'm saying. Susan Susan Albrecht Acquisitions Manager Wabash College Lilly Library Crawfordsville, IN x6216 albre...@wabash.edu ************************************************************************ ********* "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."--Neil Peart ************************************************************************ ********* VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
