Transfer and Use of Bibliographic Records: Guidance on Legal Issues
Bibliographic records play an
important role for institutional libraries, enabling users to find, locate and gain
access to resources and enabling 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, eg making records
visible to Google, and cataloguing services such as ‡Biblios.net. What are the legal
implications for libraries of these new sorts of activities?
You can use this website to clarify and advance your understanding of what you
are entitled to do with the bibliographic records which you hold
within your institutional library catalogue. It is based around 5 steps which
will take you through the process of conducting a compliance audit. Conducting regular
compliance audits is essentially a form of risk management - a systematic
process of identifying, analysing and responding to risk to your institution. For more
information see about this
resource.
The Basics
Some helpful background information and use cases
Step 2. Your contractual relationships
Do you know which suppliers you have existing contractual relationships
with for the supply of bibliographic records?
Do you know what sort of licence clauses may impose restrictions on your institutions
activities?
Step 4. Responding to risk
Managing the risk to your institution by addressing non-compliance and
issues raised by the audit
Negotiating future contracts which best meet your requirements
Step 5. Regular auditing
Maintaining the compliance audit as an important institutional resource to
support ongoing risk management and service optimisation