Acquisition of multilingual materials; Through a central resource agency or by individual libraries?: Contribution to the panel on finding,selecting, and purchasing materials for multilingual libraries in the 80s,New York, 30 June 1986

Different ways are explored of organizing acquisitions work for multilingual public library collections, on the local, national and international scale. The respective technical pros and cons of three methods—decentralized acquisitions, centralized acquisitions to rotating deposit collections, centralized cooperative acquisitions—are set forth. Mention is also made of some external demographic and social factors which influence the library's choice of an acquisitions method. Flexibility and responsiveness to reader needs are stressed.     

公共部门信息获取关注因素研究

研究目前公众对公共部门信息服务的关注因素, 通过问卷调查的方法, 调研公众进行公共部门信息获取时, 对公共信息的质量、合法性、版权、获取时间、获取地点、获取成本和来源的关注情况.最终得到结论:我国公众获取公共部门信息时, 对信息质量的关注度最高, 其次是获取时间和获取成本.用户的受教育程度、所处城市等个人属性, 会对公众对信息的关注程度有所影响.我国公共部门在提供信息获取服务时, 首先应当考虑到所提供信息的质量, 此外应当针对不同地区、不同人群的需求, 适当地开展个性化服务, 提高信息服务的水平和层次.     

A study on Africana collections in UK libraries: present state and future scenarios

A questionnaire survey combined with interviews involving 70 libraries and two suppliers of Africana materials in the UK was conducted in order to understand the acquisition situation with respect to the demand, acquisition policies, extent and adequacy of Africana acquisitions, sources and factors limiting acquisition of such materials. The study revealed that 41% of the surveyed academic libraries were actively acquiring Africana. It was found that limited use of relevant bibliographical tools, budgetary constraints, delays and non-response to orders, relative smallness in demand, inaccessibility to sources of the publications and the unsatisfactory state of national bibliographies for most of the African countries south of the Sahara were among the factors that limited Africana acquisitions. The cooperative venture by some of the African-based publishers in publicizing their publications abroad was considered a useful step in building Africana collections in the UK. It is suggested that wide utilization of electronic media for sources of information for such materials could be a further improvement on this matter.     

Understanding Copyright Law for Slavic,East European,and Eurasian Materials

ABSTRACT

In the last decade the issue of copyright has become more complex for Slavic and East European librarians for a number of reasons. Technological advances have led to new forms of publication and new options for document distribution, and have also had a major impact on intellectual property law in the U.S. and abroad. As the technical means for copying and distributing materials in various formats have increased, and as electronic resources comprise a steadily increasing proportion of the material used in libraries, copyright law has become more integral to the work of librarians. In the background of technological progress, the newly independent states which emerged after the dissolution of Communism have all adopted new copyright laws within the context of global developments in intellectual property legislation. This paper provides a context for copyright as it relates to the work of Slavic and East European librarians in the U.S., by offering a framework for understanding the main issues surrounding copyright and a method for approaching questions related to copyright protection of library materials. The emphasis of this article is on use by U.S. libraries of textual material created or published in Slavic and East European countries.     

Who’s number one?: evaluating acquisitions departments

This paper is a first attempt at articulating the criteria that characterize acquisitions departments at the forefront of book acquisitions. Scoring values were assigned to each of these criteria in an attempt to provide acquisitions practitioners with a framework within which to assess progress on improvements in a numerical way. These criteria are intended to stimulate discussion among acquisitions professionals about ways to improve their own acquisitions operations and to identify high-performing acquisitions departments. This paper was written in the hope of encouraging wider participation in acquisitions discussions among working professionals in the field and to begin the identification of best acquisitions practices.     

期刊网络著作权海量授权模式SWOT分析

文章以期刊著作权海量授权模式为研究对象,以互联网的信息报导为研究材料来源,运用SWOT分析方法对直接授权、版权代理、版权要约等三种模式的优势、劣势、机遇和困境进行综合比较,提出版权代理模式解决效果比较好的结论。并对图书馆在知识产权方面的工作进行简要论述。     

灰色文献开发利用的障碍与措施

我国灰色文献的开发 ,受到来自观念方面、搜集方面、管理方面和书目控制方面的障碍。要充分开发和利用灰色文献 ,就要做到 :转变观念 ,提高认识 ;建立专门搜集机构 ,加强科学管理 ;广泛收集书目信息 ,拓宽灰色文献来源 ;充分揭示馆藏 ,深入加工 ,提高利用率 ;建立灰色文献数据库 ,走联合开发灰色文献的道路。参考文献 6。     

Plagiarism and copyright: Best practices for classroom education

Plagiarism and copyright infringement are terms that most students are familiar with, and when asked, most students will readily express the sentiment that plagiarizing the work of others or committing copyright infringement is wrong. Despite students' basic understanding of these concepts, many struggle to put them into practice. Often this is a result of students not having enough knowledge about how to cite sources or how copyrighted works can legally be reused for scholarly purposes. This article identifies a way in which copyright and plagiarism can be taught as well as a process students can work through when addressing these issues.     

The Electronic Resources Group: using the cross-functional team approach to the challenge of acquiring electronic resources

The acquisition of electronic resources presented many new issues for staff at the Texas Tech University Library. Traditional communication pathways between acquisitions and other departments were inadequate to address the increasingly complex questions that were raised in the process of acquiring the electronic resources that were increasingly in demand by the university community. While it was possible to handle decision making for electronic resources through the library’s departmental structure, the process was hampered by a lack of speed and focus. To resolve this problem, six library staff members were brought together to form an electronic resources group (ERG). This cross-functional team is composed of library staff from four different departments, each of whom had experience with different aspects of acquiring electronic resources. Members continue to work within their departments and report to their functional managers, but they also report to the ERG project manager and are expected to contribute substantially to the accomplishment of group goals. This paper describes how Texas Tech has successfully used the cross-functional team approach for managing the acquisition of materials in electronic formats.     

Rights instruction for undergraduate students: Needs,trends, and resources

As librarians are increasingly identified as rights experts on campus, it is essential that they understand rights issues and how best to communicate them to a multitude of users. While scholarly literature contains many examples of librarians working with faculty on copyright issues regarding course materials, reserves, e-reserves, and intellectual property, there is far less documentation of the need for students, especially undergraduates, to understand their rights as creators and consumers of information. This article reviews relevant literature on librarian copyright skills, the need for copyright instruction, and current case studies and examples of copyright instruction for undergraduates.     

论图书馆采访员预防著作权侵权的职责

文献采访是图书馆著作权侵权的源头,预防侵权采访员责无旁贷。预防采购盗版书刊,防止接受捐赠、调拨、交换侵权书刊,预防书刊补遗侵权,预防采购著作权侵权数据库,防止使用数据库侵权,预防采访开放存取的科学数据、期刊等网络信息资源侵权,这些都是采访员维护著作权的职责范畴。     

Politics and publishing in a democratic society: Technical breakthroughs and research agendas

Publishing flourishes best in a democratic society. Technological changes alter the relationship of forces so that opportunities for publishing expand. A broader range of information channels, for example, increases choice and makes authoritarian rule more difficult. Publishing also enhances democracy when decisions are made on the basis of merit rather than top-down legislation. Research should reflect awareness of the interaction of publishing and politics. Such areas as the relationship between public and private sectors, the impact of internationalization, non-U.S. ownership of information, mergers and acquisitions, and conflict between the First Amendment and copyright law, are examples of areas in which democratic outcomes are critical. Decision making in publishing would benefit from heightened awareness of the political consequences of publishers’ activities. Irving Louis Horowithz is the author ofCommunicating Ideas: The Politics of Publishing Mary E. Curtis has written widely on subjects of concern to professional publishing.     

采访数字资源的版权风险和应对策略探讨

数字资源采访实践工作中,图书馆面临着极大的版权风险。基于近年来图书馆数字资源相关版权纠纷统计分析,总结采购数字资源中的版权风险主要包括数字资源中含侵权作品、合同风险、服务风险等。图书馆应该对我国著作权相关法律中图书馆的版权例外保护条款和数字资源采访中的版权风险有充分而深入的认识,积极参与相关法律法规的完善,加强对数字资源供应商、资源合法性和合同的审查,强化数字资源服务中的技术保护措施、注意和告知义务,并制定图书馆版权管理办法。     

私立网络著作权授权规则对图书馆的实践价值及影响

私立网络著作权授权规则的应用,能够提高图书馆的作品获取效率、传播效率和使用效率,但也带来了挤压图书馆信息消费空间、阻却图书馆合理使用和对公有领域作品自由使用的不利影响.因此,只有抑制著作权控制行为的扩张、建立禁止技术措施滥用的法律规则、排除私立规则对作品公有领域的侵占,才能有效保护图书馆的信息消费权益.     

Commentary: Value and Digital Rights Management—A Social Economics Approach

The rise of digital media has created a number of problems for copyright, in large part by removing the physical constraints of copying associated with older media forms. The concept of digital rights management (DRM) has been pushed as one solution, restoring technological constraints on copying. There are, however, other issues associated with DRM approaches; they are costly and can be used to restrict access and use of content beyond the specific rights granted by copyright policy. These costs and additional restrictions reduce the value of content, affecting its demand and use, with repercussions for the creation of both private and social value. This paper will examine several proposed digital rights management approaches from a social economics perspective—an approach that emphasizes recognition of indirect and social sources of value, and the implications of policy for such value.     

Publishers,United States foreign policy and the third world, 1960–1967

One phase of the United States government's attempts to counteract the Soviet psychological offensive in the 1960s was the forging of a partnership with U.S. publishers. Within that framework, the United States government rectified its tainted record on the international flow of information by legislating the Florence and Beirut Agreements; revised its attitude towards international copyright legislation, sorted out issues confronting the American book industry abroad, and consolidated U.S. government agencies' book activities. The aggregate activities unfolding within that banner culminated in the United States' adoption of the National Policy on International Book and Library Activities in 1967—a policy which was never fully implemented. Those 1960s initiatives constitute a framework for formulating a post-Cold War cultural relations policy. Rosemary Ntumnyuy Mokia earned a Ph.D in Library and Information Science from Indiana University. She has worked as a librarian at the University of Yaounde Library (Cameroon, West Africa) and is currently an acquisitions librarian at Grambling State University.     

Copyright and Electronic Library Resources

ABSTRACT

As electronic resources represent a larger percentage of libraries' purchases and services, copyright law, licensing, and other information laws are changing some traditional library functions. This article reviews the law of electronic resources through an outline of affected library services, including acquisitions and collection development; gifts, exchanges, and sales; archiving and preservation; circulation; interli-brary loan and document delivery; reserve; and research, reference, and instructional services. Legal issues considered include copyright, licensing, and database protection.     

Collection development in a multi-system cooperative: An acquisition policy and plan

Four libraries in Colorado through a cooperative agreement (Arapahoe Public Access to Libraries, or APAL) hired a contractor to produce a plan for cooperative collection development and acquisitions. The study included analysis of the collection by subject categories, collection use by reference, circulation and in-house study. This supply/demand analysis provided data for use with the ALA/RTSD Guidelines for Collection Development. The result was a plan for joint acquisition of materials and a schedule of purchases for stressed subject categories for the subsequent five-year period. A category was considered stressed if proportional demand exceeded proportional supply determined in the collection and use analyses. The model developed is applicable in any library.     

著作权利益平衡与出版业创新发展

版权交易机制的良好运行不仅需要适宜的外部生态,也需要与外部生态涉及的各因素之间建立相得益彰的交互关系。版权制度、版权市场以及版权意识是版权交易机制外部生态各因素中最具决定作用和最突出的因素,它们之间相互促进、相互制约,并共同作用于版权交易机制。为版权交易机制创造良好的外部生态以促进版权交易机制的运行,应坚持权益平衡和经济效率原则,并强化制度保障机制、完善市场支撑机制和创新意识提升机制。