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

[Breedlove, W Stephen]

We've had similar situations.  What we did once we saw that a number of people were requesting the same articles, and that the teacher would not put the articles on reserve or Blackboard, was just keep a copy of each article, even if they were within the last five years, and when we received a request for one of them, we just copied from our copies and sent it on.  If the articles were older than the last five years, no problem with copyright and ILL.  If they were within the last five years, we just kept our copyright records as we always have and counted each transaction for our CCG records.  We did not burden other libraries with requests for the same articles over and over.

We've had many animals come to interlibrary loan, but they were not the four-legged or winged type.

W. Stephen Breedlove
Reference Librarian/Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
Connelly Library, La Salle University
breedlov at lasalle.edu<mailto:breedlov at lasalle.edu>
215-951-1862

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] 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<mailto:ill at bloomu.edu>


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