Good
morning,
We're
looking at how much we can reasonably charge our service users for articles
obtained for the via library privilege, such as from the BMA, British Library or
university libraries within the NULJ scheme.
The
Copyright act states that:
persons to whom
copies are supplied are required to pay for them a sum not less than the cost
(including a contribution to the general expenses of the library) attributable
to their production
I'm
interested to know how other NHS libraries interpret this. Do you consider
the "cost attributable to their production" to be the invoice charge which the
supplying library made to your library service, or do you charge less or more
than this?
Also,
following the e-mails last week about a JISCmail based ILL mailing list, are we
any further forward? Charging individuals upwards of £7 for each BL
request is going to be seriously unpopular here, if that's what it turns out we
have to do, so any way of obtaining more of our requests from NHS, rather than
Library Privilege, sources would help us to reduce the sting where
possible.
Thanks,
Jane
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Jane
Mansfield
Operations
Librarian
Professional Library
Lincoln County Hospital
01522
573940
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