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HEADLINE: AALL TO SPONSOR COPYRIGHT WORKSHOPS
CONTACT: Martha S. Brown
312/939-4764
mbrown@aall.org
Chicago, September 14, 1998-The American Association of Law Libraries'
(AALL) Professional Development Committee will continue its series of
copyright workshops with programs in San Diego and Seattle this fall.
The San Diego program,"Help! I'm Surrounded by the Law and I Still Can't
Understand Copyright!", will be co-sponsored by and held at the San Diego
Research Library-A Hewlett Packard Company, in San Diego, California on
Monday,October 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
"Help!..." is a one-day program that will offer comprehensive, up-to-date
training on the many issues surrounding copyright. It will demonstrate the
growing importance of copyright for the careers of legal information
professionals by showing new pathways through the often-bewildering maze
that is copyright. Topics covered will include Copyright and the Development
of Multimedia Projects; Copyright and the World Wide Web; Coursepacks,
Reserves, and Electronic Reserves; Fair Use Issues; and Future Directions of
Copyright.
The instructor for the San Diego Program will be Kenneth D. Crews,
Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and
the School of Library and Information Science. He is also Director of the
Copyright Management Center (CMC) at Indiana University-Purdue University.
The Seattle program,"Copyright Law in the Age of Technology," will be held
on November 21, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the University of Washington
School of Law in Seattle, Washington.
The Seattle program will address the many challenges modern technology
presents to copyright law. Laura N. Gasaway, one of the leading authorities
on copyright law and libraries, will address these issues and answer
questions such as: How does copyright law apply to digitized information?
What are the changes in copyright in the electronic environment? How do you
cope with new formats and different methods of accessing and storing
information?
Gasaway is the Director and Professor of Law, Katherine R. Everett Law
Library, University of North Carolina. Gasaway previously conducted a
similar workshop at University of Pennsylvania's Biddle Law Library in
Philadelphia this past May.
Law librarians, non-law librarians, and others interested in learning the
issues of copyright law are encouraged to attend. For registration
materials for both workshops, go to
http://www.aallnet.org/events/edu_home.html or contact Lara Koban, Education
Coordinator, at 312/939-4764.
The AALL Professional Development Program works to provide AALL members
with readily available, high quality and timely educational programs,
publications, and services in a variety of formats, using all available and
future technologies in order to enable members to remain current in the
profession of law librarianship.
The AALL Professional Development is made possible through major support
from BNA, Inc., the oldest wholly employee-owned company in the United
States and a leading publisher of print and electronic news and information.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote
and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities,
to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in
the field of legal information. Today, with over 5,000 members, the
Association represents law librarians and related professionals who are
affiliated with a wide range of institutions: law firms; law schools;
corporate legal departments; courts; and local, state and federal government
agencies.
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