Guidance on Legal Issues in the Transfer and Use of Bibliographic Records

This considers the legal implications for libraries of new sorts of activities brought on by the digitally networked world and may assist to clarify and advance understanding of what librarians are entitled to do with the bibliographic records that they hold within their institutional library catalogues.

 Bibliographic records enable users to find, locate and gain access to resources and enable institutions to manage their stock and circulation. The digitally networked world, Web 2.0 and shared services open up new possibilities for the transfer and aggregation of bibliographic records, making them visible to Google, and cataloguing services.  Conducting regular compliance audits is defined here as a form of risk management – a systematic process for the identification, analysis and response to risks that may arise and impact a library’s institution.

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[A short podcast on this issue from the research team at Curtis and Cartwright supports this guidance]

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Publication: JISC Legal, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2010. JISC Legal is a JISC Advance service