ACQflash: ALCTS Webinar: Authority Records and Copyright Determination

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ALCTS Webinar: Authority Records and Copyright Determination

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Sessions begin at 11 am Pacific | 12 Mountain | 1 pm Central | 2 pm 
Eastern and last about an hour.

What do Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, British Insects and How to 
Identify Them, and Sixty Years a Bookman have in common? These books are 
all in the public domain, like many others collected on our library 
shelves. What information does it take to know if they are in the public 
domain, and where do enhanced authority records fit into this? Virtually 
all copyright terms around the world are based on some variation of the 
formula:

author’s life + years = copyright term

To calculate when a book enters the public domain, it is important to 
know the death date for the author.

For the past five years the IMLS-funded Copyright Review Management 
System (CRMS), based at the University of Michigan Library, identified 
public domain works one copyright determination at a time. As part of 
CRMS, we started to identify author death dates that were not already in 
authority records. We began depositing our discoveries of author death 
dates in NACO authority records as a pilot project in 2013 to enhance 
the data that has been so helpful to CRMS.

In this webinar we present our copyright-centric view of authority 
records and the impact you can make by simply adding an author death 
date. We will show you how NACO-trained catalogers improve authority 
records by including death date information that will be of value to a 
copyright review. We will also outline how cataloging practice relates 
to bibliographic copyright determination, including examples like 
federal documents, publication date range, and associated country.

Learning Outcomes

Webinar attendees will learn:

how authority record data--including death dates, nationality, and 
publication dates--support copyright determination

why enhancing NACO authority records can help

awareness of the gap between legal definitions and cataloging practice

the impact enhanced authority records can have in the identification of 
public domain works


Who Should Attend?

The webinar is aimed at catalogers interested in learning the copyright 
implications of the data they put in catalog authority records, those 
engaged in rights issues, and HathiTrust partners who will learn from 
our copyright review activities.

Course Level & Prerequisites

beginner to intermediate level; no prerequisites

Presenters

Matt Carruthers is a NACO-trained cataloger and metadata projects 
librarian at the University of Michigan, where he creates and transforms 
metadata in support of library and university projects. He has 
experience with name authority metadata in both bibliographic and 
archival contexts, utilizing MARC and EAC-CPF, and he was a team member 
of the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP).

Kristina Eden is copyright instruction librarian for the University of 
Michigan Copyright Office. She leads the training team for the Copyright 
Review Management System, a series of three IMLS National Leadership 
Grant projects based at the University of Michigan which have 
collectively identified more than 239,000 public domain works. She 
helped initiate the pilot project to send author death dates found 
during the course of copyright review to NACO certified catalogers for 
updating authority records.

Fee

ALCTS Member (individual) . . . $43

Nonmember (individual) . . . $59

International (individual) . . . $43

Groups

(Applies to a group of people who will watch the webinar together from 
one access point.)

Member group . . . $99

Nonmember group . . . $129

All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access 
to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link 
to the recorded session, so if you are unable to attend the webinar at 
the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the 
recording at your convenience.

How to Register

To register, complete the online registration form or register by mail 
for the session you would like to attend.

Contact

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org. For all other 
questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, 
ALCTS Events Manager, at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese_at_ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education 
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