Hi Maureen, If you look in ARL's Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, principle 5 covers reproducing material for use by disabled students, etc. It states:
"When fully accessible copies are not readily available from commercial sources, it is fair use for a library to (1) reproduce materials in its collection in accessible formats for the disabled upon request, and (2) retain those reproductions for use in meeting subsequent requests from qualified patrons." Therefore, you can make a case for students who need the captioning to understand the content because of learning impairments or other disabilities. You need to be careful though how far you are making these copies available. See the section on limitations and enhancements. Regards, Jane Jane B. Hutchison Associate Director Instruction & Research Technology 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470 (w)973-720-2980 (cell) 973-418-7727 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maureen Tripp Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] captioning media for deaf students A question for the collective wise ones: Several times instructors with deaf students in their classes have contacted our disability services people, who then contact us, and request that media be captioned. Usually this is done for vhs tapes, but sometimes for dvds that don't have close captioning or subtitles. The disability office wonders if, once these materials are captioned and transferred to a dvd, the Library can catalog them as captioned, and keep them in the teaching collection. Faculty would be able to locate them through the catalog, and could use them in face to face teaching. What say you all? Maureen 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.
