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    2022 ALA-CORE National Binding Survey Report
    (2023-02-07) Doyle, Beth; Coulbourne, Mark; Brim, Richenda; Ellenburg-Kimmet, Joyce; Chapman, Joyce
    The American Library Association (ALA) Core Preservation Administration Interest Group (PAIG) held a Symposium on the Future of Library Binding in 2022. Following the symposium, the ALA Core Library Binding Practices Survey Team (hereafter, “Team”) was convened to explore issues that arose during the symposium. The Team members volunteered to create a survey on current library binding practices to gain a better understanding of who is using library binding as a preservation and access method, how they are using such services, and the challenges that face the community.
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    Creative Commons Licenses and You
    (2014-11-16) Horbal, Andrew
    Discusses how to interpret and use Creative Commons licenses, with an emphasis on their uses in a library context.
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    Video is Easy!
    (2014-07-30) Horbal, Andrew
    Discusses the three main barriers which prevent librarians from experimenting with video: 1. Don’t have access to production equipment 2. Not able to achieve the production values students/faculty expect 3. No time And explains why none of these things is actually a problem by demonstrating a decently-wide range of sources of ready-made video and video production tools which can easily be adapted to a library instruction context.
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    Audiovisual Alacrity: Managing Timely Access to Audiovisual Collections
    (Society of American Archivists, 2014-08-16) Pike, Robin C.; Hagan, Siobhan; Villereal, Steven
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    Fair Use and Digital Publishing: An Academic Librarian’s Perspective
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001-04) Lowry, Charles B.
    "The Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Under Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, the Congress has for more than two centuries established the rights to intellectual property and its uses. I will tell you where I stand on this matter, and it seems to me to be imbedded in the order of priority in the very words used by the founding fathers--the social good was defined as the purpose, not the individual right. However, in the history of our democratic republic the intellectual property regime has drifted inexorably toward the latter. Today, we are arguing desperately to preserve basic rights to use copyrighted works, against the very federal agency that has custody over them--the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit also that I have a point of view as a scholar, as a journal editor, as a professor in the university classroom, and as the dean of a large research university library system. My views are shaped by that perspective, but are defensible as legitimate and worthy of serious consideration in a society that benefits greatly from the contributions of the academy.
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    ETDs and Digital Repositories--a Disciplinary Challenge to Open Access?
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-10) Lowry, Charles B.
    The University of Maryland Libraries have managed a repository using D-Space software for over two years, providing faculty a service for posting their research work and a foundation for moving the labor intensive management of paper dissertations and theses to the digital environment. Close cooperation with the Graduate School has been an essential feature of moving to a uniform requirement that theses and dissertations be presented in PDF format and posted in the Digital Repository at University of Maryland (DRUM). At an early stage, intellectual property issues began to emerge as an important policy dimension of managing DRUM—as they have for virtually any institution that gets into the digital repository business.
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    Creating a Culture of Security in the University of Maryland Libraries
    (The Haworth Press, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, Library of Congress, 2003) Lowry, Charles B.; Goetsch, Lori
    A critical part of building a shared culture of mutual responsibility for security and safety is a thorough understanding of all the elements of a library’s security environment. To address the need for a more coherent approach to library safety and security that reinforces a philosophy of shared responsibility among all staff, the University of Maryland Libraries embarked upon an assessment of policies, procedures, and facilities in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries. Begun in the fall of 1997, the security study and subsequent development of practice and policy were implemented over a two-year period and serve as a model comprehensive approach for a large academic library system.