Re: In-house library photocopying

I would like to elaborate on these questions as we have a similar situation here.

Our HSL sends out copies of the Table of Contents for each journal the library subscribes to. Faculty circle or mark the articles they want copied and send their order in to the HSL staff. The articles are retrieved, copied and the patron is charged a fee for this service. In many cases, by sending out the table of contents, a particular article may be requested many times by different doctors at the college of medicine.

Does this constitute a violation of free use?

To muddy the water even further, if a libraries web page makes the table of contents for any or all of their journal titles, and also offers a document delivery service, is this considered fair use?

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