ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 236 / C & R L N e w s C on tin u in g ed u c a tio n u p d a te By James W. Hart Instruction Librarian University o f Cincinnati A C R L ’s BI workshops funded by the 19821. Morris lones Award receive high praise. D u r i n g 1983 librarians from across the United States—New E ngland to H aw aii—were able to a t­ tend th e ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section’s c o n tin u in g e d u c a tio n w orkshops in th e ir ow n states or regions. E ight state and regional library associations w on grants of $625 each from the ACRL/BIS C ontinuing E ducation C om m ittee to help pay workshop expenses. The C om m ittee itself had won the money the previous year in the J. M or­ ris Jones W orld Book E ncyclopedia ALA Goals Award com petition. The BIS C ontinuing E ducation C om m ittee di­ vided the $5,000 aw ard into eight equal grants and held its own contest. F o rty lib ra ry associations from 36 states applied for the grants. The applica­ tions were judged on the evidence of need for the workshops and geographic distribution. The Com ­ m ittee w an ted to enable those people who had been least able to attend a national ALA confer­ ence to reach a workshop locally. The winners, ti­ tles of the workshops, and the workshop leaders were as follows: •A C R L New E ngland C h ap ter, “C an Biblio­ graphic Instruction Teach Students to Think?” , Cerise O berm an and M ark Schlesinger. •D istric t of C olum bia L ibrary Association and Consortium of Universities of the W ashington M et­ ropolitan Area, “L ibrary Instruction for Faculty and G rad u ate Students,” Anne Lipow. •Tennessee L ibrary Association, “Teaching L i­ brarians to T each ,” Joan O rm ondroyd. •K en tu ck y L ibrary Association and the KLA ­L ib rary In stru ctio n R o u n d tab le, “T eaching L i brarians to T each ,” Joan O rm ondroyd. •A rizona State L ibrary Association, “Concep­ tual Fram ew orks for Bibliographic In stru ctio n ,” M ary Reichel, M ary Ann Ramey, G em m a DeVin- ney. •N e w Mexico L ibrary Association, “Teaching L ibrarians to T each ,” Joan O rm ondroyd. •P acific N orthw est L ibrary Association, “The One H our S tan d ,” Sharon H ogan, Anne Beaubien, M ary George. • H a w a ii L ib ra ry A ssociation, “ L ib ra ry I n ­ struction for F acu lty and G ra d u a te S tu d en ts,” Anne Lipow. The C om m ittee provided the $625 grants, de­ scriptions of available workshops, publicity at the national level for the workshops, and a liaison to assist w ith the planning for each workshop. Host li­ brary associations were responsible for publicity at the local or regional level, any extra funds needed to cover workshop expenses, local arrangem ents for the workshops, and an evaluation report for their workshop. Now th a t all the workshops have been com pleted, the last task left is for the C om m it­ tee to complete a final evaluation report for the ALA Goal Awards Com m ittee. Evaluations showed th a t the workshops were very successful. A ttendance ranged from 15 to 100. One workshop drew 11 attendees from neighbor­ ing states. Based on the evaluations received to date, at least 5 of the workshops w ere considered to have m et their stated objectives completely by over 75% of those w ho responded to th e evaluation q u e s tio n n a ire . W o rk sh o p le ad ers w e re ra te d M a y 1984 / 237 equally highly. In fact the most common response on evaluations applauded the high quality of the presentations and commented that the information presented was new and professionally stimulating. The project as a whole was equally successful. Several state associations that did not win grants decided to pay for an entire workshop themselves, thus further extending the service to the m em ber­ ship and im pact of the grant. The grants paid 24 % -84 % of the total expenses of each workshop and an average of 55% of the expenses of all the workshops. The clearest expression of the value of this project comes from the final report of the New Mexico Library Association: “An ambitious under­ taking. . .involving such high speaker costs.. .would not have been attem pted w ithout ALA financial assistance.... We hope that the Bibliographic In ­ struction Section will find justification in the evalu­ ation reports from all the grant recipients to enable this grant program to be repeated.” ■ ■ Copyright: An ACRL resolution Prepared by the ACRL Copyright Committee Barbara Rystrom, Chair The guidelines referred to in the NYU settlement are too restrictive. I n June 1983 the Association of American Pub- lishers (AAP) sent a letter to college and university administrators urging them to adopt as their copy­ right compliance policy the agreement which New York University (NYU) accepted as p art of the May 9, 1983, out-of-court settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against it by a group of publishers and coordinated by the AAP.1 Out-of- court settlements in lawsuits are not imposed by the courts and do not set legal precedents; therefore, such settlements are not necessarily appropriate models for entities not a party to the settlement. The NYU policy states th at faculty can expect the University to defend and indemnify them in the event of a claim of copyright infringement only if the faculty member has followed the guidelines in­ corporated in the policy, gotten permission from 1 Chronicle o f Higher Education, April 20, 1983, pp.1, 22. the copyright owner, or cleared the copying with the General Counsel of the University. The guide­ lines incorporated in the policy are fam iliar to copyright observers, because they are from the Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions with Re­ spect to Books and Periodicals (hereafter referred to as the Classroom Guidelines). Designed to clar­ ify the principle of fair use as it applies to copying for classroom instruction, and to provide “greater certainty and protection for teachers,” the Class­ room Guidelines were negotiated by prim ary and secondary school educators with authors and pub­ lishers, and were incorporated into the House Re­ port on the copyright la w .2 The American Associa- 2U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. Report on Copyright Law Revision, H.R. 94-1476, September 3, 1976, p p .68-70, with corrections in the Congressional Record, Septem­ ber 21, 1976, pp. H10727-28.