Proposed Session Abstracts
Session One:
Dazed and CONFUzed: Translating Fair Use Guidelines into Collection Policies & Procedures
R. Brooks Jeffery, The University of Arizona
With the final emergence of the much anticipated CONFU (Conference on Fair Use) guidelines, collections are faced with continuing confusion on how to proceed with interpretting the controversial guidelines onto the everyday acquisition and access policies. This paper will briefly outline the CONFU guidelines, the opposition to their universal adoption and how the Imagen Project at the College of Architecture, The University of Arizona has attempted to translate the guidelines into collection policy.
A Case Study of Playboy’s Photo Library Digitizing Project
Tim Hawkins, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
In 1992 Playboy’s CEO, Christie Hefner, approached me with the suggestion that we duplicate the entire Playboy Photo Library for insurance purposes. I suggested that we explore the emerging digital technologies as an alternative. The ensuing project evolved into a three-pronged plan: archiving an existing collection of nine million photos; archiving new digital images created as components of a magazine and new media production process; and restoring valuable photographs. The project has presented technical challenges as well as human hurdles. This paper is a summary of the failures and successes, with predictions of where the future may lead.
Session Two:
Baiting the Hook: Librarian Faculty Partnerships
Jennifer Cox and Sara Heitshu, The University of Arizona
New Learning Technologies are opening doors for librarian faculty partnerships. Libraries that take a leadership role on campus in regards to information technology position themselves as key players in campus efforts to improve student learning. Faculty are turning to the library to learn how to use web technologies and in the process open the door for a variety of creative partnerships. This presentation discusses two such partnerships; one in which the librarian became a part of the teaching team, and one where a web page was developed as an integral part of the learning experience.
Librarians and User Expectations in the Great Internet Information Hunt
Ann M. Lally, The University of Arizona
As the WWW becomes pervasive throughout the world, librarians are becoming more and more accessible to larger groups of information-seekers via email; this is forcing us to examine how we determine who we are going to help, and how much we are going to help them. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the issues and begin a dialogue regarding the provision of information services to the internet community.