Re: Children's lit everywhere

[Brenda Moxley <dems157@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU>]

Children's lit references certainly are everywhere.  Just tonight my
husband, my parents and I were watching a VCR movie (I think it was called
Airforce One).  In one scene during a telephone conversation the President
said, "If you give a mouse a cookie..."  and the Vice-President replied,
"Then he wants a glass of milk."  Since I am the only one familiar with
Children's lit, I am the only one who understood that he was telling her
that satisfying one demand would only lead to another.

Brenda Moxley, media specialist
dems157@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu
Inglenook Elementary
4120 Inglenook Street
Birmingham, Al 35217



>
>Hi,
>  We get a cartoon in our paper (and I temporarily can't remember the name
>of it but it replace Far Side and is similar in humor) that I got a chuckle
>out of this morning.  It shows Nasa scientists trying to repair a rocket
>and they're reading David Maccaulay's "The Way Things Work."  Children's
>lit is everywhere!
>

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Subject: HIT: Copyright & Scanners

I received very few responses to my question about scanners in the media
center, especially relating to copyright and fair use of scanned materials.  I
did, however, receive a number of requests to post a hit, so there is interest
in this question. All of the websites I've visited have just repeated what I
already know about the copyright law, but don't mention how people are
interpreting that law in relation to "fair use" of images electronically
scanned from copyrighted materials.

Here is a compilation of those few answers I did receive:

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You should definitely check out
   http://www.benedict.com
It's a fantastic site full of information about copyright issues. It won't be
able to tell you what other libraries are doing, but it can definitely answer
your questions as to what is and isn't legal.
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While we don't have a scanner in our public area, we would put the same
copyright notice on it that we do for any self-service copier, microfilm
reader/printer, or computer printer.
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I've been concerned about this question, too.  Isn't there something about
electronically changing the format of a material (i.e. print image into
computer graphic format) that makes it illegal to scan copyrighted images?
I'd be concerned about putting one in my library.
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We have had a flat bed scanner for over a year.  I put a copyright notice on
it.  The purpose of the scanner was to be able to copy color pictures for
classroom projects.  This worked fine until I had a couple of kids copying
black and white text material.  So I put another notice on it saying they had
to show me what they wanted to scan before they scanned it.  That stopped most
of the copying that could be done better at another copier.  We love it!
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That's it! Anyone else want to contribute idea?

Debra Cushman, Media Clerk
Vancouver School of Arts & Academics
Vancouver, WA
Orchpub@aol.com

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