On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
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> Topics of the day:
>
> 1. send it to me and get it (2)
> 2. The Best of LA&M
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> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:53:14 -0700
> From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_KCOYLE.NET>
> Subject: Re: send it to me and get it
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------
> Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant
> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net
> ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet
> fx.: 510-848-3913
> mo.: 510-435-8234
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>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:31:36 -0500
> From: "Holmes, Ramona R" <holmes_at_UTA.EDU>
> Subject: The Best of LA&M
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> =20
>
> You are cordially invited to the presentation The Best of LA&M 2006
> Sunday June 24, from 8:30-10:30, Washington Convention Center room:
> Room
> 103 B.
>
> =20
>
> Please come to hear from successful authors how to research and
> publish
> in a professional journal. Panelists discuss their outstanding
> research
> articles published in Library Administration & Management magazine
> during 2006.
>
> =20
>
> Ramona Holmes
>
> Coordinator, Information Organization & Prep
>
> U of Texas @ Arlington Libraries
>
> 702 Planetarium Pl
>
> POB 19497
>
> Arlington, TX 76019
>
> 817.272.7435
>
> holmes_at_uta.edu
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:47:07 -0700
> From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: send it to me and get it
>
> I'm feeling a little slow on the uptake today. Hopefully the
> following questions will make things clearer to me...
>
> 1. Karen, you said that publishers "want to prevent any un-
> mediated delivery of materials to users via ILL"? Even print
> materials in a library's collection?
>
> 2. Maybe I don't have a full enough understanding of "Get It",
> but it seems to me, at least on the surface, that a "Get It" user
> would not be able access anything they already can't get access to?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_KCOYLE.NET> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------
> Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant
> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net
> ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet
> fx.: 510-848-3913
> mo.: 510-435-8234
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>
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