Dear Colleagues, The Fair Use and Video Project has posted online its document titled "Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries," http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/. For an introduction to the document, please see Carrie's Russell's blog post on ALA'S District Dispatch at http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/04/introducing-community-practices-in-the-fair-use-of-video-in-libraries/ . To those of you who contributed your time and effort to answer our surveys, attend our focus groups, or comment on our drafts, we offer you our sincere thanks. This project began as an attempt by the Video Roundtable to establish a recommended body of practice in the fair use of video for educational purposes. A team of six librarians, with advice and guidance from ALA’s Office of Information Technology Policy, coordinated the process of gathering input from the media librarian community and then created a document describing our findings. We decided to focus on documenting our community practices, i.e. how librarians routinely and responsibly fulfill their mission to preserve and provide access to our cultural record. The team conducted in-person interviews at national conferences and hosted a series of focus groups at locations across the country: Boston, Seattle, Evanston, Washington, D.C. and Richmond. About eighty library staff members with varying responsibilities for buying, processing, and/or supporting the educational use of video were included in our surveys. We welcome your comments and suggestions! This is a living document and your comments may prompt revisions. If you'd like to leave a comment, please use the Comments link on the right. Please do let me know if you have any problems accessing or using the site. http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/
Best regards, Judy Thomas, University of Virginia for the Fair Use and Video Working Group: Steve Brantley, University of Illinois at Chicago Nell Chenault, Virginia Commonwealth University Carleton Jackson, University of Maryland Carrie Russell, American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy Claire Stewart, Northwestern University Judith Thomas, University of Virginia Justin Wadland, University of Washington-Tacoma Judith Thomas Director, Arts and Media Services University of Virginia Library 434.924.8814 / jtho...@virginia.edu<mailto:jtho...@virginia.edu>
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
