#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Mar 9 2020 - 8:30pm ET

Copyright Symbols by Mike Seyfang via flickr with edits by Lauren Bourdages

TOPIC

A copyright in libraries primer

All right chatters, for the March 23rd chat expert copyright educator Lesley Ellen Harris (of Copyrightlaws.com) will be our guest chatter. This will be Lesley's first time doing a Twitter chat, so she's going to be joining us this coming Monday as a participant to get a sense of what the chat is like, so for that reason I thought we could have a little primer session on copyright in libraries. This is my niche, as you know, I'm the Copyright and Reserves Supervisor at my library. I'm also currently working with Lesley as her current Copyright Specialist in residence which is what prompted this great collab for the chat. Copyright is a complicated topic, but it's relevant in a wide variety of library settings so it's great to at least have a foundation in it. So join us this week for a primer session and then in two weeks for more in-depth exploration at the hands of a long-standing expert in the field.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE'VE CHANGED THE TIME TO 8:30PM ET!

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Do you ever get questions about copyright at your library? What kinds?

Q2  How much do you know about copyright, do you know where to look for information? What are your go-to resources?

Q3 How much did you learn about copyright in your MLIS? Did any of your courses touch on it? Do you think they need to?

Q4 What advice do you have for planning a black history month program at the library?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 9 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG.