Creative Commons in the Library 2008 November 12
Molly Kleinman has a good article about “The beauty of “Some Rights Reserved”: Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students” in the November 2008 issue of C&RL News that comes with an associated Podcast . If you are familiar with Creative Commons licenses you might not learn a lot new about the licenses themselves, however what was new to me was the was learning about the University of Michigan is going about advocating/educating about Creative Commons and how faculty and students can take advantage of it and why they might want to release their own work under such a license. They do this a variety of ways including one on one sessions, but the article focused on a workshop they offer. Molly also posted a series of CC HowTos on her blog and had a introduction to copyright for instruction librarians published in LOEX Quarterly recently.
was glad to see the UM announcement a bit back and also see CC taking off. AADL uses it for all the event videos and digitization efforts. I’m not involved with the events but it seems like the authors/lecturers don’t feel bad about signing the CC release.