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Jesslyn, you mentioned that you did your assignment on three Aboriginal digital libraries. Can you post the links here or in Sakai?

Sample collection policies found on the Ontario Library Services North website:

http://www.library.on.ca/links/clearinghouse/accreditation/selectedsamplepolicies/index.htm

There is information on Sakai about copyright and I am creating a few documents about copyright and citation issues.

Here is a copy of the email that I sent to Lisa, who spoke to our class a few weeks ago.

Hi Trisha

Unfortunately most of the stuff I know about is aimed at an academic community, so the
guides would discuss educational use provisions and so forth. I don't think it's exactly
what you are looking for, but at York the lawyerly types have put some things up here <http://www.yorku.ca/univsec/documents/copyright/text4.htm>, for faculty and students,
explaining what copyright is and a bit about the rules. Maybe you'd be able to work with
something like this and just amend to make it less academically-oriented? I'm sure UofT
has something like this up as well. I guess you could also look at public libraries
offering downloadable e-books and see how they handle informing users about copyright
issues? Does TPL have something up on the site you demonstrated in class?

Something else that may be useful, although more focussed on citations than on copyright
per se is our Academic Integrity tutorial <http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/>. We're just about to go live with a
new version within the next couple of weeks, so keep your eye on the site. Ryerson <http://www.ryerson.ca/academicintegrity/tutorial.html> has a more fun and visually
appealing tutorial that you might look at as well. If you decide to link to either of
these, let me know and I'll just check with the powers that be to make sure we're ok with
it (normally no big deal, but there's been pressure in the past to "monetize" some of
these sorts of online tutorials, with attendant issues around whose intellectual property
they are anyway -- the author's or the university's. (if you go with Ryerson's funkier
version, I'll give you a contact to talk to there. I'm meeting with them this Friday
afternoon actually, if you let me know right away). Anyway, all of the above is sort of
mechanical "what are the rules" information, which might be useful albeit boring, and
they are at least somewhat interactive, rather than just pages and pages of text. Oh and
you could look in Primo <http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm>-- the ALA's
searchable database of peer-reviewed IL learning objects for other tutorials.

For information that helps educate about the problems with the rules...

On open access -- Peter Suber has a decent introduction, <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/brief.htm> if you want to provide a link in a
section explaining some issues around fee-based vs free access to info, or if you're
creating a lesson plan for librarians/teachers. I'm a big fan of John Willinsky and co's
Public Knowledge Project <http://www.publicknowledge.org/about> as well, as you probably
gathered by my insistence on our need to empower and engage our users as activists in
this war. They've got great info in simple language about issues <http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues> like network neutrality, copyright, open access
-- and why these things matter <http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/why>. You could
also have a link to Michael Geist's blog <http://www.michaelgeist.ca/> -- he writes on
Canadian problems particularly.

Tips -- not reinventing the wheel... I see you've figured that out! Also, aside from
creating a section of links, or embedding links where-ever appropriate on these issues,
maybe your outreach team could think about a lesson plan for teachers/librarians on
copyright, using examples from the ODBS? (this pushes both the learning objective and the
tool you are creating....).

Good luck! You can stick this email up in the Moodle if you want, I confess I have been
remiss in checking back in.

best
Lisa

trisha.faulhafer@utoronto.ca wrote:

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hi Lisa,

My name is Trisha, and I am in the Faculty of Information class at the University of
Toronto that you visited last week. I am part of the digital contents team, and we are
looking at copyright/open access information to provide on the ODBS. We had it in mind
in our literature review, but your discussion made us realize that it is very important


We want users to have an understanding of what they can do with the information that is
on the digital library, and what they can do in terms of rights when they create their
own work. We want to keep it simple. I've consulted the CIPO website, creative commons
website and the open content alliance websites. I have also looked on UofT's library
website for information. I will also be looking at other digital library websites to see
how they discuss copyright in ways that users will understand without having to research
the topic in depth.

[-- the ODBS is going to basically be a digital library, with some stuff being public
domain and printable, etc... but A LOT of other resources being copyright material still
--]

We were also thinking of having some simple information about citation styles, or at
least links to other websites that provide citation guidelines, for example UofT has one
and they have a fair use policy, etc...

I was wondering if you are aware of anything that might be very useful to us, for
example, documents that already exist to explain to users about copyright, etc.??? or if
you have any other tips for me

thanks so much for your help!

Trisha Faulhafer

Here are the documents that I have been working on. They are also in Sakai.

Here they are in pdf.

#1 Copyright policy