Title
Project LEND: UC's initiative to expand digital access and the ways users interact with copyrighted material
Location
KIPJ Theatre
Session Type
40-minute concurrent session
Start Date
18-4-2023 3:00 PM
End Date
18-4-2023 3:40 PM
Abstract
The University of California – in collaboration with HathiTrust – has launched a landmark research project to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery) begins with a rigorous user needs assessment (and thus looks beyond use cases supported by Controlled Digital Lending) and a broad legal analysis. The project seeks to enable services that would be broadly useful across higher education and beyond – not particular to UC -- and will develop a service plan for broad implementation. We will share the contours of the project and how we see Project LEND adding value to other initiatives, and discuss potential roles that HathiTrust and other organizations may take in developing the services envisioned.
Project LEND: UC's initiative to expand digital access and the ways users interact with copyrighted material
KIPJ Theatre
The University of California – in collaboration with HathiTrust – has launched a landmark research project to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery) begins with a rigorous user needs assessment (and thus looks beyond use cases supported by Controlled Digital Lending) and a broad legal analysis. The project seeks to enable services that would be broadly useful across higher education and beyond – not particular to UC -- and will develop a service plan for broad implementation. We will share the contours of the project and how we see Project LEND adding value to other initiatives, and discuss potential roles that HathiTrust and other organizations may take in developing the services envisioned.
Comments
As the associate university librarian for scholarly resources, Rice Majors manages the entire life cycle of the UC Davis Library’s collections, from acquisition and description to assessment and strategy. He has been active in reimagining library collections, including creative work around the implementation of transformative open access agreements. His research interests include transformative access to library collections, equity and inclusion in collections, and improving the effectiveness of collection development. Rice has more than 25 years of experience working in and with libraries, including 12 years in library administration and six years in the library technology industry. Prior to coming to UC Davis, Rice held senior positions at Santa Clara University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Innovative Interfaces.
Mike Furlough is Executive Director of HathiTrust, an organization supported by 200 members drawn from the academic and research library community, which is dedicated to collecting and preserving the scholarly and cultural record. Furlough oversees the full range of its programs and services, which include a trusted digital library of over 17 million volumes, providing collections access for print disabled users, large-scale copyright research and investigation, innovative support for text and datamining, and the establishment of a distributed print archive among its members. Since joining HathiTrust in 2014 he has overseen a dramatic expansion of its collections, services, membership, and staffing, and supported development of its business and operational practices. In 2016 the American Library Association recognized HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) with the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award, recognizing the program’s efforts to undertake systematic copyright reviews of over 1 million works. In 2020 HathiTrust rapidly deployed the Emergency Temporary Access Service to provide continuity of access to academic library collections that were rendered inaccessible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, making the service available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.