A solid professional performance on the part of academic librarians at present calls for adequate knowledge about copyright law, not only for the development of their own tasks without infringing the law, but also to guide and provide pertinent advice for library users (faculty and students). This paper presents the results of an online survey of Brazilian academic librarians, the objective being to determine the level of knowledge about basic questions on copyright related to their professional activities. The case of Brazil is especially relevant, as it is one of the few countries still not including library exceptions and limitations in its copyright law. Our results make manifest important gaps in knowledge about copyright, underlining the need for a training program to remedy the situation. Moreover, because training is needed for current as well as future professionals, it should be implemented in both the professional and the educational sector. ost informational resources that make up university library collections are copyrighted works, meaning that a good proportion of the everyday activity of these libraries comes into contact with copyright law. We can find a wide array of examples. If one copies, photocopies, scans, or digitizes a work, the right of reproduction must be taken into account, as it does when something is downloaded from the Internet. Making a work available to the public, whether over Internet or in an intranet, has implications for the right of communication to the public (that is, the right to perform or display the work publicly according to U.S. law). If a work is adapted, translated, or summarized, we run into the right of transformation. Moreover, the moral rights of the authors, which were rarely an issue when dealing with analog information, are strongly affected in the case of digital information. 1 Thus, modifying or eliminating the authorship data of a work is an infraction of the right of paternity/attribution, while significantly altering a work, for instance through activities of digital preservation, may entail an infraction of the right of integrity. Problems can also arise surrounding some norms recently included in most
TransInformação, Campinas, 22(2):123-138, maio/ago., 2010 Garantia literária: elementos para uma revisão crítica após um século R E S U M OConsiderando o princípio da garantia literária, formulado por Hulme em 1911, para quem os termos de um sistema de classificação devem derivar antes da literatura a ser efetivamente classificada (o que se encontra documentado) do que de considerações puramente teóricas (classificações científicas ou filosóficas ou em uma suposta autoridade dos primeiros classificacionistas), observa-se uma ruptura com as concepções de Harris e de Dewey que, por sua vez, haviam se baseado em Bacon e Leibnitz. Deste modo, busca-se contribuir para uma síntese crítica do referido princípio como subsídio teórico aos estudos de organização do conhecimento. Para tanto, estuda-se a vigência deste princípio ao longo de um século por meio de distintos dados documentais (registro em dicionários, recuperação no Google etc.), reconhecendo-o enquanto elemento metodológico em sistemas de classificação e em padrões de registro. Nesse âmbito discutem-se os procedimentos top-down ou bottom-up de desenho de sistemas e se resenham três aplicações tradicionais da garantia literária, sugerindo-se três novas aplicações, em virtude de seu potencial metodológico. Tais aspectos levam a concluir pela crescente perspectiva de aplicação da garantia literária dentro e fora do campo da Ciência da Informação.Palavras-chave: Garantia literária. Sistemas de organização do conhecimento. Vocabulário controlado. A B S T R A C T
Proposta de utilização teórica e metodológica do Percurso Gerativo de Sentido postulado por Greimas com o intuito de se chegar a elementos metodológicos que possam contribuir para a identificação de conceitos em textos narrativos de ficção. Para tanto, parte-se da definição dos conceitos e estruturas do texto narrativo para, em seguida, e valendo-se do Percurso Gerativo de Sentido, aplicado a textos narrativos de ficção, buscar-se elementos metodológicos para a depreensão do aboutness.
A solid professional performance on the part of academic librarians at present calls for adequate knowledge about copyright law, not only for the development of their own tasks without infringing the law, but also to guide and provide pertinent advice for library users (faculty and students). This paper presents the results of an online survey of Brazilian academic librarians, the objective being to determine the level of knowledge about basic questions on copyright related to their professional activities. The case of Brazil is especially relevant, as it is one of the few countries still not including library exceptions and limitations in its copyright law. Our results make manifest important gaps in knowledge about copyright, underlining the need for a training program to remedy the situation. Moreover, because training is needed for current as well as future professionals, it should be implemented in both the professional and the educational sector.
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