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arl-ereserve: Re: "Model Policy" Citation

arl-ereserve: Re: "Model Policy" Citation

Re: "Model Policy" Citation

Irving Stephens (stephi@rpi.edu)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:57:25 -0400 

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:57:25 -0400
Message-Id: <v01510124affbb28c8122@[128.113.68.83]>
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org
From: stephi@rpi.edu (Irving Stephens)
Subject: Re: "Model Policy" Citation


At a recent meeting held in Buffalo, NY on July 14 about Electronic
Reserves for the Western New York Library Resources Council, Mary Jackson
of ARL commented that 1982 ALA "Model Policy" is no longer "endorsed," or
at least considered currently recognized, by ALA because it has not
recently been reviewed by that organization.

She also commented that  ARL's newer policy statesment(s) relating to use
of materials for class reserve reading may no longer reflect the stance of
ARL given the recent inability of ARL and the publishing industry to find
accord about electronic "fair use." - Those who seek comfort in wrapping
themselves in model statements, don't have much a fig leaf left...

However, there remain decades of established educational practices during
which time there's been  darn little litigation against libraries as
culprits of copyright infringement.  Those "model" (perhaps, historic?)
statements indicate mostly what the profession identified as "good
practices" in the absence of broadly accepted standards or clearer law.

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Irving Stephens
Richard G. Folsom Library
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy,  New York  12180-3590
Tel 518-276-8325

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