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News from the UAP OfficeWe Welcome Two New Top PeopleUAP staff are delighted to offer congratulations to Christine Deschamps as the new President of IFLA and Sjoerd Koopman as the new Professional Co-ordinator. Both are good friends of UAP and its aims and objectives. Mme Deschamps was involved for many years in the Document Delivery & Interlending Committee and our series of International Conferences in this field; Mr Koopman has a background of working in document delivery in the Netherlands so we look forward to working closely with both of them in the future.Projects UpdateCOPYSMARTThe EU-funded CopySmart project came to a close at the beginning of March, and received a very positive and enthusiastic review from the EU Reviewers.
The CopySmart solution will now be used in further EU projects, such as Project Sedodel, which will look at secure document delivery for visually impaired people. For further information about the project see http://www.arttic.com/projects/copysmart, and details of the British Library's role in the project are available from Sara Gould. National Union CataloguesThe project to compile a World Directory of National Union Catalogues - in other words, a "union catalogue of union catalogues" - has suffered considerable delays because of pressure of work, but is now set to be completed. The Directory of National Union Catalogues will provide complete information about all national and international union catalogues which are in existence today. The listing will include general catalogues and those relating to any specific subject area, and in any language. The date range covered by the catalogues is not important, so long as the catalogue is still current, with records still being added to or deleted from it. The Directory will give details of contributing libraries, subject coverage, date range, and language for each union catalogue, as well as providing access information and a brief description about any plans for future development. The Directory will eventually be accessible on IFLANET, IFLA's Internet site, and paper copies will be available for those without Internet access. To tie in with the production of the Directory, a half-day workshop on the subject of union catalogues will be held at the IFLA General Conference in Amsterdam this year, which takes place from 15 - 21 August. Speakers and topics have yet to be confirmed. For further information about the Workshop, or the Directory of Union Catalogues, please contact Sara Gould. Twinning ProjectFurther funding of $3000 has been generously awarded by UNESCO to further develop this Project. IFLA Twinning DatabaseOffices for UAP and International Lending A 'Dating Agency' for libraries
Libraries interested in being entered on the WantedPartners especially needed from public libraries in developed countries. We have a number of public libraries from African countries who would like 'partners' from a technologically developed country.
Conference ReportsCOPEARMS Special Interest Group Meeting- Athens 20 October 1997The COPEARMS Consortium held a Special Interest Group Meeting and Workshop just before the IFFRO AGM in Athens in the hope of attracting delegates from the publishing industry and rights collection agencies. Due to the co-operation of IFFRO (and to some measure to the unexpectedly bad weather) both events were very well attended. The purpose of the SIG was to promote the work of the project as well as the concept of interoperable electronic rights management systems (ERMS), and to provide an opportunity for current trends and concerns to be discussed. COPEARMS Partners gave presentations about ERMS in general, security issues, legal issues, and a presentation about the COPEARMS offer. There was also a presentation about the VENIVA Project, which is developing a Pilot Application of a virtual archive to provide remote access of documents preserved in Venice, Corfu, Crete, and Vienna relating to Venetian history. Also presented was an overview of SCOPE'S 'CACTUS' ECMS which aims to deliver learning resources to students in a number of Higher Educational Institutions throughout Scotland via the internet. Finally there was a presentation about the SEDODEL Project which is due to start in April 1998. The project will combine emerging ERMS technology with technology of accessible information to produce a secure document delivery environment for blind and partially sighted people. During the workshop delegates were asked to consider two scenarios of the future, in one the electronic world was seen as an extension of the paper world and existing rights and exceptions were kept. In the other access to work was based on ability to pay. Needless to say there was a great debate between the rights holders and libraries' representatives about rights and exceptions. Although this is an area where there is unlikely to be full agreement between the two sides, it was agreed that there should be communication and co-operation between them if the gap is ever going to be bridged. Also discussed were the merits of ERMS and licensing schemes as methods of protection. In particular the Digital Object Identifier(DOI) was seen as a great development for the future. It was particularly eye opening to have delegates from Zimbabwe and Nigeria at the workshop. It is easy to take access to new technology for granted and concentrate on copyright restrictions as the main barrier. At the workshop it was highlighted that if information in electronic form becomes widespread then a huge proportion of the world's population would not be able to use it as they do not have access to the internet. As information coming from the developing world would not be in electronic format it could well be overlooked by the developed world thus denying both developed and developing world the opportunity to share each others material. A full copy of the proceedings is available from Pauline Connolly. Rights, Limitations & Exceptions: Striking a Proper Balance An international open forum for debating the issues in the digital environment - 30-31 October 1997, Amsterdam National copyright laws attempt to balance the legitimate right of the creator to exploit his work and the right of the user to gain access to it. With many conflicting interests identified under fair dealing, library privilege and private use provisions, such a balance can be difficult to agree. This is particularly true of the electronic environment where control over copying is still hard to achieve. While the Conference workshops rarely reached consensus on the extent of limitations which should be allowed, the event provided the opportunity for differing opinions to be aired as the wide range of delegates meant that all viewpoints were represented. A full account of the Proceedings can be obtained without charge from Sarah Keates.
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Forthcoming EventsThe Role of Libraries in Community Economic Development - Victoria, British Columbia, 16-17 June 1998UAP are delighted to be working with colleagues in Canada to organise the conference This will build on the successful event in Ljubljana in April last year. SEDODEL Special Interest Group Meeting - Amsterdam IFLA '98As part of the IFLA Conference the SEDODEL (Secure Document Delivery for Blind and Partially Sighted People) Project will be holding a half day meeting to discuss the barriers facing blind and partially sighted people with regard to access to information, electronic solutions will be considered along with associated problems. The meeting is open to any interested individuals. For further information contact Pauline Connolly. IMPRIMATUR Special Interest Group Meeting - Amsterdam IFLA '98Following the success of the IFLA '97 SIG the IMPRIMATUR Consortium are holding another SIG this year. The IMPRIMATUR Project is funded under the ESPRIT Programme of the European Commission. The aim of the project is 'to agree, within a forum representing the widest range of information industry organisations, a swift and practical response based on a mutual understanding of the problems arising at the interface between IT, telecommunication and IPRs: and to identify and develop a set of tools to address those problems in the business, technological, standards and legal areas.' The IFLA '98 SIG gives librarians a chance to actively participate in this consensus building process and to ensure that their views are made known to other actors in the information industry. For further information about the SIG contact Judy Watkins. For further information about the project see http://www.imprimatur.alcs.co.uk Freedom of Expression, Censorship, Libraries - Latvia, October 1998The issue of censorship is also crucial to UAP and so we are working with the National Library of Latvia to sponsor this conference. "TERENA Networking Conference" (TNC'98), Dresden, Germany, 5-8 October 1998We are hoping to hold an IMPRIMATUR Special Interest Group Meeting in conjunction with this conference. Promote and Stimulate: the Role of Libraries in Encouraging Regional or Minority Languages, September/October 1999 The Office is hoping to co-host this conference with support from the European Commission. The aim is to promote and safeguard regional or minority languages and cultures.
RepresentationCommittee on Copyright & Other Legal Matters (CLM)IFLA agreed to the establishment of this committee during the Copenhagen conference. The Chair is Marianne Scott from the National Library of Canada and the secretariat is located in the UAP office, strengthening its already well-established role in the intellectual property arena.
PublicationsTwo recent publications from the UAP Office are The Role of Libraries in Economic Development (Papers from a Conference held in Ljubljana, April 1997) and Towards a More Efficient and Effective Interlibrary Lending and Document Delivery in Africa (Proceedings of an IFLA Seminar on Interlibrary Lending and Document Delivery in Developing Countries held in Ghana, April 1996). A complete list of current publications for sale may be requested from the Office. In addition, the following titles are available free of charge:
New Publication
The Office has also continued to publish semi-annual reviews and bibliographies in Interlending and Document Supply. It has also continued to compile the Miscellany section of the journal. A chapter on National Libraries, comprising a review of the year's literature, has been written and published in Librarianship & Information Work Worldwide. The first issue of COPEARMS News has recently been distributed. It is hoped to publish the newsletter on a quarterly basis until the end of the Project. Contact Pauline Connolly to receive a copy. CommunicationsDirector of the UAP Programme and Head of IFLA Office for International Lending
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Officer Administrator The Office is fully linked to the Internet system. All staff can be reached on a general Email address IFLA@bl.uk and individual members of the team can be reached by using the formula: firstname.lastname@bl.uk. The General Office telephone number is +44 1937 546465 (which is also the number for Louise Huddlestone). Other numbers are:
The UAP Office has a home page on the WWW at: http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/uap.htm The UAP newsletter can be received electronically by contacting Pauline Connolly.
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The Copysmart project, which has run for 2½ years, produced an electronic rights management system in which access to and use of electronic documents can be monitored, and payments debited through the use of an electronic smartcard. The British Library's role was to test the use of CopySmart in a networked CD-ROM library environment, and staff from the IFLA/Copyright Office set up user trials with both staff and end-users. Other test sites in the project were the Open University of the Netherlands and Bureau van Dijk, a commercial CD-ROM producer. The British Library trials concluded that an electronic rights management system such as CopySmart is a feasible technical solution to the problem of controlling use of electronic material and of ensuring that electronic publishers are fairly paid for that use in a library environment.
