More on electronic reserves -Reply

[Elisabeth Roche]

Shades of Carnegie! "More gruel, please?"

Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com
serendipity RULES!

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>Electronic reserve is but one area where issues of fair use will be played
>out.  I think that the most basic access libraries have long offered -- the
>borrowing of books -- may be endangered by changes in the law when "books"
>have only a digital, not material, presence.  Ability to pay should not be
>an essential prerequisite for access to our future cultural heritage.  
>
>Brian Nielsen
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>		Brian Nielsen, Ph.D.
>		Manager, Learning Technologies Group
>		 Academic Technologies
>		Northwestern University
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>		Evanston, IL  60208-2850
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