Study on Librarians' awareness and user education initiatives regarding copyright

[Purnima Joshi]

Dear professional colleagues,

Greetings!!!

I am Ms. Purnima Joshi, Librarian, K. C. Law college, Mumbai.

I am undertaking a study on librarians' awareness and user education initiatives regarding copyright. The complexities in the creation, acquisition, distribution and use of digital resources that have emerged due to technological developments, make copyright compliance very difficult for librarians as well as the users. Librarians, being the mediators and facilitators, have the professional responsibility to implement the copyright law and educate users on this important issue. Non-compliance with copyright regulations can create legal problems for the libraries. It is therefore necessary to find the level of librarians’ awareness about copyright issues and the initiatives taken by them to educate the library users.

Considering the importance of this issue, I wish to undertake the study of college librarians. I am using a questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The questionnaire contains objective type questions. I request you to spare 15 to 20 minutes of your precious time to fill the questionnaire.

I request you to fill the questionnaire at the following link: http://goo.gl/forms/mFddeusCLZ . Please fill it and click on the 'SUBMIT' button.

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Thanks & Regards.

Purnima Joshi
Librarian,

K. C. Law College, Mumbai.