Tech Therapy Podcast on “Setting Professors Right on Rights” 2008 July 22
Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to Tech Therapy. Tech Therapy is a series of podcasts in which “Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, talk about the headaches, anxieties, and general problems you might be having with technology on your college campus.” In through the archives, I listened to an interview with William Shell, director of academic technology and computing services at Eastern Michigan University, who asks: “How can a university make faculty members aware of copyright law?” Obvious, copyright is a big issue for libraries, and I really like that the conversation brought in the idea that the IT department partner with librarians who are familiar with, and interested in, copyright and fair use issues. They also brought in some other ideas about how to educate faculty about the issues involved without being seen as “the copyright police.” All of the Tech Therapy podcasts I listened to are interesting, but this one stood out for the librarian in me since they said things like “your best friends [on this issue] are in the library.” Probably not a lot of new information with people who deal with this, but still it was nice to see these non-librarian techies advocating for the librarians on this issue.