Anche negli USA, dove il fair use è molto piú generico e permissivo delle nostre eccezioni al diritto d'autore, ai bibliotecari serve molta formazione per orientarsi.
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-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] CopyTalk April 5, 2018 Data: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:08:03 +0000 Mittente: "Benson, Sara Rachel"
CopyTalk, April 5, 2018: Are librarians confident assessing fair use?
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Please join us on April 5th for "Assessing Librarians' Confidence and Comprehension in Explaining Fair Use Following an Expert Workshop" presented by Sara Benson, Copyright Librarian at the University of Illinois.
Sara will discuss her study to measure both academic librarian confidence and comprehension of fair use. The results, though limited in scope, provide encouraging evidence that appropriate training, even on a time-limited level, can help library professionals improve their knowledge of fair use. Testing revealed that the level of confidence and comprehension rose after the academic librarian participants were provided with the three-hour fair use training. The survey results collected two weeks after the training demonstrated that some librarians had the opportunity to use the skills learned in the training workshop in their daily work.
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The full announcement (and any changes) appears at http://www.districtdispatch.org/2018/03/copytalk-are-librarians-confident-as...