The annual Kraemer Copyright Conference at UCCS will be held on June 6-7, 2016 on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus. This conference offers public, academic, and school librarians the opportunity to learn about U.S. Copyright Law and how it impacts the services we offer our patrons. The conference schedule can be found here: http://www.uccs.edu/copyright/kraemerconference/schedule.html. Our featured speakers this year include:
Dr. Kenneth D. Crews, who is an attorney, author, professor, and international copyright consultant. For over 25 years, his research, policymaking, and teaching have centered on copyright issues related to education and research. Kevin Smith, Director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University and author of the popular Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog, will be joining us this year to speak about the tools available to help librarians in addressing copyright issues. Donna L. Ferullo, who is a Professor and Director of the University Copyright Office at Purdue University. She advises the University on copyright compliance issues and is responsible for educating the University community on their rights and responsibilities under the copyright law. Carrie Russell, who is the Director for the Program on Public Access to Information for the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). Thanks to the generous support of our conference sponsors including the Kraemer Family Endowment, the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP conference registration is free! Visit our conference webpage to learn more about this event: http://www.uccs.edu/copyright/kraemerconference.html. You can register for the conference here: http://www.uccs.edu/copyright/kraemerconference/registration.html. While registration is free, it is still required and due to space limitations anyone not registered will not be admitted to the event. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about registration or the conference. Best, Carla Myers Assistant Professor Faculty Director of Access Services and Scholarly Communications Kraemer Family Library The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 719-255-3908 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.
