Comments on: Best practices for fair use in libraries

By: Foxymoron

Foxymoron — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +0000

Sounds all too familiar…

By: Dicrel Seijin

Dicrel Seijin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:54:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I teach classes online and the more online resources I can provide my students the better.

By: WaylonWillie

WaylonWillie — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:59:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I like that I found this through BB rather than through my library or my college dean.

By: ffabian

ffabian — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0000

“Aufderheide” – made me smile.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:44:00 +0000

It’s good that this is out there, but I will say that in my experience in academia librarians (and professors and everyone else) do have a sense of what’s legally fair use, but that in practice it’s essentially “anything goes” if it’s even vaguely related to research or coursework.

By: dav von TRI

dav von TRI — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:12:00 +0000

Short answer. all you base belong to us. seriously post it, use some random proxy thing if you are worried.

By: davidasposted

davidasposted — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Thank you for posting the link to these ‘best practices’ guidelines. They are extremely useful!

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:45:00 +0000

Librarian joke here and unfortunately I do believe this actually happened:
Student goes to the Info desk and sez, “I’m looking for this book the Prof said we should read. It’s called ‘Oranges and Peaches’”.
Info desk: “Do you know the author?”
Student: “Uh, yeah, lessee….someone called Darwin?”

{sound it out} :-/