Apologies for cross posting
I attended a workshop on copyright for health librarians in Manchester yesterday. One of the subjects that came up was electronic signatures and their acceptability for use on requests for interlibrary loans. I think the consensus was that we could accept an electronic signature provided the sender had ticked a box agreeing to terms and conditions including an agreement to abide by copyright legislation and had accessed the request form using ID and password. However there was a school of thought that there would be difficulties when storing the requests for the six or so years required by the legislation. It was thought that once these requests were printed off the "signature" would no longer be valid as it would no longer be an electronic document and no-one seemed to be aware of a reliable method of storing them electronically.
Can anyone out there shed any light on this? Are there any other consequences of using electronic signatures in the library world?
Helen Farquharson
Outreach Librarian
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Good Hope Hospital
Sutton Coldfield
B75 7RR
Tel 0121-378-6206 ext 3549
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