Paraprofessional Minutes

North Birmingham Regional Library

January 30, 2008

 The meeting begin at 9:10 a.m.

Announcements made:

East Ensley is now open for business.

2008 African American Book list will be coming to your location soon.  If more copies are need please ask.

Best Sellers Club-- some authors have been deleted and new ones are added.  The form is on the BPL intranet and an e-mail has been sent out to current users.

Urban List-- send them to Kenyatta Rodgers in Acquisitions

Time Clock instructions for next month meeting will be forthcoming.

All presenters from today's meeting, their powerpoint presentation can be found on www.pbwiki.com.

Margaret Hoehn presented Trends in Children's Literature

Darnita Marshall - navigated powerpoint presentation

Handout of bibliographic mentioned in this topic were distributed.

 Margaret thanked Kathy Brewis for putting the powerpoint presentation together.

Kathy Roper presented Info Age Etiquette

Deidre Sims-- navigated powerpoint presentation

Leslie Deason presented Copyright Basic Resources

Rosalind-- navigated powerpoint presentation

She gave the origin and history of the copyright law which was signed by George Washington on May 31, 1790.

Leslie begin by asking what is the definition of copyright?   It is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical...

Six basics rights of creator of work:

• right of reproduction of copies or "phone records"
• right of adaptation or creation of derivative works
• distribution of copies or phone records by sale, gift, rental, lease or lending
• public performance of the work for literary, musical, dramatic works and dance, plus motion pictures and other audiovisual works
• public display of the work
• digital transmission of sound recording, such as from websites

Leslie gave scenarios (see pbwiki link) of each of these rights.

She conclued with these thoughts:

Copyright is a complex subject.

• Learn about copyright through the Copyright Advisory Network
• Develop a copyright policy and train staff
• Learn more about copyright through books and internet resources.
• Do not copy from books, pictures or the internet for patrons. Continue to show patrons how to use the copier and internet but do not make the copies for them.

The final presentor was Robert Jones. He demonstrated how pbwiki will work.  If you are making a presentation with handouts, he asked that they are e-mailed to him at rjones@bham.lib.al.us . The L2 crew will meet this afternoon to come up with names of staff who will be editing this site. Debbie asked Robert to add the Catalog to the side bar.  If you have any brainstorming ideas send them to Robert.  Only positive inputs will be considered.

The staff who will be setting up pbwiki are: Kathy Brewis, Melinda Shelton, Richard Manoske, Tressa Fancher and Robert Jones.  Deidre Sims will be adding the monthly minutes.

Next meeting will be February 27, 2008.