Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Popular Reading Items for November

The Hour I First Believed
Lamb, Wally

Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Wagner, Hank, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette

Ender in Exile
Card, Orson Scott

Divine Justice

Baldacci, David

The Gate House
Demille, Nelson B.

A Good Woman
Steel, Danielle

A Mercy
Morrison, Toni

Watchmen
Moore,Alann


The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Fowler, Christopher

Born Country: How Faith, Family and Music Brought Me Home
Owen, Randy




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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Professor's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use

A panel of experts, including lawyers, has gotten together to create a guide that can help professors and other educators understand their rights under the 'fair use' clause of copyright.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports:
A new guide by the university's Center for Social Media offers free legal advice to clarify such issues—and its authors say that the "fair use" provisions of copyright law are more permissive than many professors may think.
(Full-text available on-campus)
Curious about how copyright affects your work in the classroom? Check out the guide at
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.