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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report is now available. This report summarizes interviews conducted between August and September 2007 with staff from eight partner institutions. Interviewees shared information about how and why institutions investigate and collect copyright evidence, both for mass digitization projects and for items in special collections. This report is one of the deliverables of the RLG Programs Work Agenda.

 Participating partner institutions and staff include:

Cornell University
Peter Hirtle

Emory University
Lisa Macklin

New York Public Library

Tom Lisanti

Rutgers University

Grace Agnew

Stanford University

Mimi Calter

University of California, Los Angeles

Angela Riggio

University of Michigan

Judy Aronheim

University of Texas at Austin

Dennis Dillon

RLG Programs is grateful to these partner institutions and staff for participating in this project and sharing their knowledge and perspectives to form the basis for this report.

You may link directly to the report here:

www.oclc.org/programs/publications/2008-01.pdf

Best,

Merrilee

Merrilee Proffitt

Program Officer

OCLC Programs and Research

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