And if you read the statements being made by the publishing industry in
relation to the discussions about section 108 of the copyright law
(http://www.loc.gov/section108/ and look at the transcripts), the
publishing industry sees this kind of service as a complete threat. As a
matter of fact, they want to prevent any un-mediated delivery of
materials to users via ILL and they consider "document delivery" to be
piracy. They specifically want digital delivery to be exempted from 108.
So the idea that users can "get it" through libraries will send those
folks through the roof.
I have to sympathize to some extent with publishers that are trying to
move into the digital delivery market -- they, of course, want to sell
copies of their goods, and that's the business they are in. At the same
time, libraries are ALSO in the business of delivering materials to
users and, in our networked world, it doesn't make sense anymore to
limit our services to, say, users who live within our city limits nor to
limit delivery to hard copy. I don't know how we resolve this, but the
publishers are hopping mad and fighting hard to keep their markets.
kc
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> Regarding services against collections, specifically something like
> Send It To Me, Stephen Cauffman brought the following to my attention
> from the NCIP mailing list:
>
>
>> Gail Wanner wrote:
>>
>> The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative is introducing the GetIt!
>> Button at ALA Annual this week. We ask your assistance in making
>> vendors and librarians aware of this new service. Vendors with OPACs
>> and searching tools can configure access to their holdings and
>> availability information and even make it possible for a user to
>> place a
>> hold or make a request in their customers' systems. I am attaching a
>> letter that is being sent to vendors. The button is currently a
>> working
>> prototype and it will be made available to library patrons and other
>> users later this year. More information is being posted on the
>> group's
>> website:
>>
>> http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org
>
>
> I was particularly interested in the Initiative's GetIt! specification:
>
> http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/getit.html
>
> "Thank you, Stephen!"
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
> (574) 631-8604
>
>
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