Won’t copyright be an issue? Surely
you’ll have to obtain written permission from the publishers before
scanning entire books? This could be frustrating and costly.
I’d be interested to see a copy of
the responses you get.
Regards
Queen
Tel: 01342 414266
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Sent: 07 March 2011 14:30
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Subject: Scanning books
Hi all
We have been looking at the feasibility of building up an e-books collection of
our 'most used' titles held in our health information library, but have come up
against many problems, not least of which is the unavailability of some of the
titles we require.
I am wondering about the possibility of using a book scanning service to scan
the key texts we require to make them available electronically for our health
information advisors and wonder if any colleagues have already looked into this
process or have implemented it for a small book collection. Any thoughts
or advice regarding this would be most appreciated.
We are looking at having approximately 50 books scanned to provide a core
electronic resource for our call centre staff, but will obviously need to
sort out relevant copyright permissions etc.
Regards
Lorna Patterson
Librarian
NHSDirect
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