When it comes to digital rights, librarians can be awfully cranky—just look at the debate around HarperCollins ebooks. Librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library ...
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Librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science about "the basic issues of fair use and the first sale doctrine, which librarians have guarded and sanctified for decades and aren’t giving up without a fight."
Questions being answered:
"1. What do librarians want in this digital age?
2. What is the issue of fair use with regards librarians?
3. What does that mean for libraries?
4. The comparison about the book-to-ebook trend and the print-journal-to-ejournal process."