Jayne
From the copyright point of view it's not a real problem as long as you
make it clear to the students the copies must only be done for their own
private study and they mustn't pass them on to third parties. In other
words the copying is done under "fair dealing". Notices should give
guidance eg. only make copies for research and private study for a
non-commercial purposes, single copies only etc. I attend LACA (Libraries
Archives & Copyright Group) meetings and most copyright experts on the
group support this view.
I know there are other questions regarding disturbing other readers,
damaging the books, etc., and this is down to individual institutions.
Students here at Coventry sometimes use their own digital cameras but it's
always been OK - not really a disturbance to other users.
Hope this helps a bit
Steph Silvester
VRC, Chair
Arlis
Apologies if this issue has been discussed previously.
>
> Here at MMU Library (Art & Design) we are getting increasing numbers of
> requests from students for permission to take photographs of images from
> books and journals using digital cameras and/or scanners. As yet we have
> not formulated a policy on this and we wondered how this thorny issue
> has been tackled by other libraries and whether you could share your
> ideas on how you are approaching this.
>
> I'd be very happy to collate all responses I receive and report back to
> the list if that would be considered appropriate.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Jayne Everard
> on behalf of the MMU Library Art & Design Team
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