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I agree that suggestion 1 would not be legal under current UK law in relation to the provision of photopies (as opposed to loans which need no copyright declaration).  See section 38-40 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
 
Our understanding is that the student must sign a form for each request, which is what we insist upon for University of Leicester distance learning students. Electronic signatures are not (yet) acceptable either. Because of this we operate a fairly cumbersome system which relies on paper forms being faxed or sent by post. Even though we accept faxed requests we still ask for the actual form with signature to be posted. I have given full details of the mechanism behind this to Julian.
 

Lou McGill

Distance Learning Services Librarian

University of Leicester, University Library

PO Box 248, University Road, Leicester LE1 9QD, UK.

Telephone: +44 (0) 116 252 5051

Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 5075. E-mail: [log in to unmask]

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Poston [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 May 2001 14:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: On-line Inter-Library Loan forms.

Interesting
 
1) Would it not be possible for people to set up accounts, with a user name and password, they would sign a declaration stating that they would observe the copyright rules for all articles or books borrowed under their password, the form could be submitted electronically ( Via formmail and CGI) and maybe hardcopies of the form could be signed late , if necessary.
 
Also
 
2) You could set up a credit/debit card payment system on the website, so that people could just enter their card numbers and pay that way, thus allowing the whole process to be managed electronically.
 
 
( The combination of the name on the credit card and the id driven password should mean that it would be secure enough. It would not be too hard to set up, and perhaps people could also use the service to pay off fines)
 
Well just a thought
regards
Tom
 
 

 Tom Poston
 Researcher
 Brunswickgroup Ltd
 16 Lincoln's Inn Fields
 London
 Tel.: 0207 396 3508
 Fax.: 0207 936 8231
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Robinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 May 2001 10:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: On-line Inter-Library Loan forms.

Here at the Manchester Metropolitan University we're interested in offering online Inter-Library Loan forms over our web-site (we're finding there's a high demand from distance users).


Ideally, this would be for both book loans and photocopied articles from journals.


However, there are a couple of questions we need help with:


Firstly, how to get the signature needed for copyright declaration when requesting the photocopy of an article or part of a published work? The simplest way seems to ask the requester to print out an online ILL form (included on our website) ask them to complete and sign it, then send it to us in the post.


Secondly, how to generate payment? One possible solution would be to set up an ILL account on their borrower record which is debited every time a request is made (to which they would need to clear when next in the library).


Any advice or good practice from other libraries currently offering a similar service, would be greatly appreciated.


Please reply to me at [log in to unmask]


Regards,

Julian



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Julian Robinson

Assistant Librarian

IT Office/ILL

Tel: 247 6115/6645

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