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

[Craig, Bette]

We have 2 History teachers who use a scavenger type questionnaire, students have to find our office and ask what we do.  This is only one of many questions they ask in the library. If they do all the questions, they have done their own tour of the library and all of our services. They have a choice of 3 different projects, but we see a lot of these students, they are usually impressed with what we do.

Bette Craig
lib_bbc at shsu.edu
936-294-1616
Sam Houston State University
ILS Borrowing supervisor


-----Original Message-----
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Paul B Drake
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 11:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [ILL-L] Friday "fun" question (copyright & extra credit)

A tough situation. I had a new faculty this semester who offered extra credit for students obtaining a specific dissertation via ILL; and of course only the degree-granting university had a copy. The faculty intended on more than 1 person getting extra credit. He was not setting up a competition. We've talked about a wider project in the spring, as such having students search and select a dissertation from DAI and requesting that through ILL

This is an opportunity for students to learn about ILL. It is hard to stop the requests once some students have been able to get the item.

To be philosophical on a Friday: Looking at the Library's mission a statement, what solution can be reached for this situation?

I have worked on reference desks at public and academic libraries, and it seems that the extra credit questions are usually tough and can take much more time than the routine reference interactions.




Paul B. Drake     pdrake at mcneese.edu
Interlibrary Loan Librarian   (OCLC:LHA;DOCLINE:LAUMUL)
Frazar Memorial Library     337 475 5726
McNeese State University - Excellence with a Personal Touch
mcneese.library.edu                      GEAUX COWBOYS!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea Schwartz" <aschwart at bloomu.edu>
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 8:17:14 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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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