Search

Reactionary stances against pending budget cuts should be considered to be less favorable positioning for library leaders versus more proactive and anticipatory strategies. By changing the attitudinal and service posturing of library staff and services, libraries can show themselves as a more essential function to their colleges. Budget cuts primarily evoke fear for any members of a unit faced with such harsh realities. Reductions and cuts be avoided altogether, however, through positive reliance on existing library staffs ability to implement organizational redesign in workflows and tasks. Workload increases can also evoke fear, but unlike the fear of budget cuts, workload increases can be much more under the strategic control of library staff. This article serves to demonstrate investigations into selective workload increases as a means of placing the library as a keystone to collegiate operations. In so doing, internal stakeholders will see a requirement to change motivation for service output, and external stakeholders will insightfully behold libraries in a more positive fiscal light. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)

Campus librarians play a central role in conversations revolving around copyright compliance. The sheer volume of information provided within library physical and virtual spaces affirms the role libraries play in current copyright debates. Regardless of the function of librarians on any particular campus, it is important to confront the myriad of copyright issues on a college campus from a position of respect for the learner and the copyright owner. This article functions as a copyright primer which librarians can use to help formulate compliance strategies concerning copyrighted material. Other libraries are encouraged to use the primer as a departure point for developing their own philosophy and guidelines. At the University of St. Francis, emphasizing the user as a potential "reproducer" of content is one key to building an understanding of caution and care. The idea of "spontaneous" fair use is also a central and unique function of this primer.