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Coming Soon: Copyright Workshop with Nancy Sims

Hey Professor! Do you have questions about copyright? We have the workshop for you!

UST libraries are pleased to host an event with copyright specialist Nancy Sims, who will speak about the issues and challenges of copyright from a faculty member’s perspective. nancy

Join us on Wednesday, November 11 from 3:30-5:00pm in ASC’s Hearth Room. Refreshments will provided; register here to reserve your seat!

We’ve asked Nancy to address the following topics:

what constitutes Fair Use
choosing/providing access to course materials
obtaining permission to use a copyrighted work

But come prepared with any other questions you may have: her presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period.

Nancy is the Copyright Program Librarian at the University of Minnesota libraries. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and an MLIS from Rutgers University and says that her job is not to be the “copyright police” on her campus, but to help individuals and groups throughout the University community to understand issues surrounding copyright and scholarly communication. She is fascinated by copyright law in all of its aspects, and in particular, how individuals construct understandings of copyright as it relates to their own scholarly, artistic, professional, personal, cultural, and communicative activities.

She has published articles and presented at conferences about copyright issues, technology, and emerging forms of scholarship.

October 15, 2015 by

Faculty News

Faculty Feature: Course Reserves 101

Do you want to…

Create a completely customized reading list for your course?
Reduce costs for students?
Help ensure our great library resources get used?

Then UST Libraries Course Reserves are for you!

As you finalize your reading lists for this semester, please know it’s never too late to let the library staff help you put items on Course Reserve. course reservces

Materials can be placed on physical or electronic reserve, with loan periods ranging from 2 hours to 2 weeks. It all starts by filling out a request form, after which Course Reserve staff will contact you to finalize details. Once the reserve is in place, a course-specific reserves page will be created that can be linked to on your Blackboard page or easily found by course # or instructor’s name within our system.

More details can be found below, or view our Course Reserves webpage to start placing your items on reserve now!

Print Course Reserves:

The list of items that can be placed on reserve includes: 12001064_10153564518992270_3791545871161013218_o

Books from the UST Libraries collection
Personal copies of items (including films, books, textbooks, you name it – items will be returned to you at the end of the semester)
Films from the UST Libraries collection
Materials from the Music Resource Center

*Note: If an item you’d like to place on reserve is not available at UST Libraries, you are always welcome send a purchase request through your library liaison to acquire an item (this might be an option for later-in-the-semester readings or for next spring at this point; acquiring a book takes time!)

E-Reserves:

Alternatively, many items may be placed on e-reserve, to be linked to within our reserves system or on your course Blackboard page. We are always happy to work with you to make sure that the e-reserves comply with copyright law and license restrictions:

In many cases, you can find or create a direct connection (known variously as a durable link, persistent link, DURL, or PURL) to the reading in one of the libraries’ subscription databases, and place that link in your Blackboard course. See IRT’s help pages for more on using Blackboard.
If that is not an option, Course Reserve staff may create an electronic reserve item accessible from the CLICnet catalog. To use this option, you will need to send or bring us a physical or PDF copy of the reading.

Fun Facts:

For Spring Semester 2015 alone, we had 161 Courses use Course Reserves in the OSF Library, putting 461 unique items on reserve (including 141 E-Reserves – articles, book chapters, etc.)
In the last 9 days, we’ve had a 124 students check-out materials on Reserves (UST Libraries-wide).

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments; we hope your semester is off to a great start!

This is the first of many “Faculty Feature” blog posts – look for more each Thursday! Please send any future topic ideas to UST Librarian Laura Hansen.

September 17, 2015 by

Archbishop Ireland Library, Circulation, News & Events

It’s time to get rollin’!

Dear Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity faculty and staff —

UST Libraries are changing the lending policy that governs how long you may borrow items from the circulating collection. On Monday, July 15, 2013 the fixed end-of-term due date is changing to a rolling due date of 120 days. We are pleased to make this change that ensures you and your colleagues will always have library materials for at least 4 months before needing to return or renew them. For more details about the change and its restrictions, please read the footnotes below*.

If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please contact us at IrelandLibrary@stthomas.edu.

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* The library reserves the right to recall library materials when they are needed for course reserves. If there are no other users waiting for the item, you can renew the item for another 120 days. The overdue fine and lost book fee structure remains the same. Overdue fines do not accrue on a daily basis. Items are considered lost when they are not returned within a month. A charge of $65 per item is applied to your library account for lost materials. The library reserves the right to charge a higher fee when the cost to replace an item exceeds $65. Loans from other collections (CLIC, MTLA, or ILL) have loan lengths of varying lengths; please check your online library account or contact library staff to confirm when your items are due.

June 27, 2013 by clborchardt