Re: In-house library photocopying

From: Dieter Dambiec <d.dambiec[_at_]student.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:25:59 +1000

On Sat, Mar 28, 1998, Teresa Winning <interlib[_at_]ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> wrote:
>
> Our HSL sends out copies of the Table of Contents for each journal the
> library subscribes to.

Off the cuff, it seems Indexing/Listing seems fine as a fair use.

> 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.

Merges close to or is multiple copying, doesn't it? Question is whether any educational exceptions are applicable?

> To muddy the water even further, if a libraries web page makes the table
> of contents for any or all of their journal titles,

Again indexing/listings seem fine as a fair use or non-substantial copying.

> and also offers a document delivery service, is this considered fair
> use?

Similar to above re multiple copying and any educational exception.

Dieter Dambiec
<d.dambiec[_at_]student.canberra.edu.au> Received on Sun Mar 29 1998 - 22:00:56 GMT

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