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,
<http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924018275234;view=1up;seq=11>and
Sixty Years a Bookman
<http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b128242;view=1up;seq=9>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:
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how authority record data--including death dates, nationality, and
publication dates--support copyright determination
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why enhancing NACO authority records can help
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awareness of the gap between legal definitions and cataloging practice
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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,
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms-world/>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
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=olweb&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=X>or
register by mail
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/files/confevents/upcoming/webinar/alcts_webinar_reg.pdf>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
<mailto: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 <mailto:jreese_at_ala.org>.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
Received on Fri Oct 31 2014 - 03:03:44 EDT