Introduction Something happened to me recently I would wager has happened to many who read this note. Teaching a new topic, you cannot understand one of the proofs. Your first attempt to fill the gap fails. You look through your books for an answer. Next, you ask colleagues, go to the library, maybe even use the interlibrary loan. All in vain. Then it strikes you that, in fact, you cannot answe...

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

QUESTION How can library staff develop and promote a document delivery service and then expand the service to a wide audience? SETTING The setting is the library at the Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUSD), Indianapolis. METHOD A faculty survey and a citation analysis were conducted to determine potential use of the service. Volume of interlibrary loan transactions and staff and eq...

Copyright is a crucial property right. Two distinct, but intertwined, economic effects depend upon the ability to control use of that property right and to gain revenue from that use: the first is the incentive effect, and the second, the enabling effect. These two principles underpin the incentive for creating and the means for disseminating copyrighted works. Changes in copyright law can have...

I interviewed for my dream academic librarian position in July 2020. was thrilled beyond words to be hired as the nursing University of San Diego August Yes, during COVID-19 pandemic. interviewed, hired, and began working entirely on Zoom. It has been, continues be, a unique strange experience.I have joined new colleagues committee meetings faculty meetings. collaborated with them our library’s...

This paper describes the results of a study to compare contemporary e-journal licenses from two research universities in United States and Spain terms e-reserves, interlibrary loan, text data mining, authors’ rights treatment copyright exceptions, usage statistics, governing law, privacy, obligations entailing security. The include higher proportion scholarly society academic press publishers t...