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arl-ereserve: Re: "Model Policy" Citation

Re: "Model Policy" Citation

Mary Jackson ((no email))
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:52:37 -0400 (EDT) 

From: Mary Jackson <mary>
Message-Id: <9707241252.AA03216@a.cni.org>
Subject: Re: "Model Policy" Citation
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <v01510124affbb28c8122@[128.113.68.83]> from "Irving Stephens" at Jul 23, 97 01:57:25 pm

Irving is correct in summarizing my comments regarding the ALA Model Policy,
but I feel compelled to clarify his comments made in the second paragraph.

ARL has not issues policy statements regarding use of materials for class
reserve reading.  ARL was one of many library associations and not-for
profit scholarly societies and organizations that reached an impasse
on electronic reserves with the commercial publishing sector within the 
context of the CONFU meetings.  ARL did issue, as did several associations
representing copyright holders, a statement detailing why ARL could not
support the electronic reserve draft guidelines developed within the CONFU
setting.  

I can support Irving's statement that the model, now historic, statements
haven't been challenged in well over a decade and may form the basis
of local intiatives.  I also underscore Irving's comment that librarians
should use the model policy knowing that it has no current status within ALA.

Please contact me if you have any other questions.

Mary

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


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