Orphan Works program at ALA Annual, June 24

["M. Claire Stewart" <claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Crossposting; apologies for duplication. This is an announcement of a 
program taking place at the American Library Association Annual 
Conference in Washington D.C. on Sunday, June 24, 2007.

> On behalf of the LITA Technology and Access Committee, The ALA OITP 
> Copyright Advisory Subcommittee and the LITA Legislative and 
> Regulatory Committee, I'd like to invite you to attend Legal 
> Challenges to Digitization Projects:  Adopting Orphan Works.
>
> This program is scheduled for Sunday, June 24, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 
>  and will take place at the Renaissance Mayflower Colonial Room.
>
> The speakers are:
>
> Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects, 
> Carnegie Mellon University, 
> <http://www.library.cmu.edu/People/troll/TrollWebSite.html>http://www.library.cmu.edu/People/troll/TrollWebSite.html
>
>
> Peter B. Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer and Technology 
> Strategist, Cornell University Library, 
> <http://tinyurl.com/7338b>Adopting "Orphan Works". RLG DigiNews. 
> April 15, 2005
>
> Douglas Knox, Interim Director, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for 
> Family and Community History, the Newberry Library.  Doug is the 
> Managing editor of the University of Chicago Press's The 
> Encyclopedia of Chicago.
>
> Miriam M. Nisbet, ALA Legislative Counsel.  Miriam recently spoke at 
> the 7th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property at the Center for 
> Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, 
> University of Maryland University College.
>
> Orphan works remain one of the legislative hot topics of the year. 
> We hope that you will join us for this discussion of the status of 
> the issue and how some institutions have managed to get their 
> copyright orphans adopted.
>
>
> Beatrice Nichols, Chair
> LITA Technology and Access Committee
> Systems Librarian, Eckerd College
> --
> Beatrice F. Nichols
> Circulation/Reference/Systems Librarian
> Eckerd College Library
> St. Petersburg, Florida
>
> Celebrate failure! It's a critical element of learning. ~ Annamaria Profit


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M. Claire Stewart
Acting Head, Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center
Coordinator of Digitization Projects, Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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