[ILL-L] Friday "fun" question (copyright & extra credit)

[Megan Bayonet]

Well, my thought is that at his previous university they likely had a
subscription to whatever journal these articles were in.  ILL would never
have been involved hence "no trouble".
 
We adhere to the one article per issue per patron rule.  Also, no more than
5 articles published within the last 5 years.  I think you're safe on these
two rules, which are the only copyright restrictions I know of.  I think
legally it is fine to request all these copies.  BUT it is a huge waste of
time.  I'd take this one to your library director and see if they can't talk
some sense into the professor.
 
Megan Bayonet
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
mbayonet at mbc.edu
540-887-7317
 

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On Behalf Of Schwartz, Andrea
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:17 AM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] Friday "fun" question (copyright & extra credit)



I need some advice from other ILL-ers.  What would you have done in this
situation?

 

A professor on our campus gave out an extra credit assignment to his class
which required them to request one or two articles through Interlibrary loan
and answer questions about them.  The articles are older (1996) but I now
have about 20 requests for both articles from 20 different students.  My
assistant and I processed many of them as they trickled in without realizing
they were all for the same two articles-just realized last night.

 

I just spoke to the professor.  He explained the assignment to me and
reported that he'd assigned the same extra credit at his previous university
and "never had any trouble from ILL" about it.  Couldn't they request ANY
article from X Journal and write about it, I asked?  No, he wanted these 2
articles that he knew well enough to know that the students had
read/understood the article.  Couldn't he have posted the articles on
Blackboard or put them on Reserve in Library, I asked?  Well, he wanted them
to do a little more work than that.  My main objection to him was that this
is a huge waste of my time, my assistant's time, and all the lending
libraries who are out there scanning these two articles over and over for
us.  

 

But is this also violating some copyright guideline?  What are my options
for the requests I haven't processed yet?  

 

Thanks,

 

Andrea Schwartz

Bloomsburg University [OCLC:PBB]

Andruss Library, Interlibrary Loan 

570-389-4218 (voice)

570-389-3895 (fax)

ill at bloomu.edu

 

 

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