Rights instruction for undergraduate students: Needs, trends, and resources

Abstract

As librarians are increasingly identified as rights experts on campus, it is essential that they understand rights issues and how best to communicate them to a multitude of users. While scholarly literature contains many examples of librarians working with faculty on copyright issues regarding course materials, reserves, eReserves, and intellectual property, there is far less documentation of the need for students, especially undergraduates, to understand their rights as creators and consumers of information. This article reviews relevant literature on librarian copyright skills, the need for copyright instruction, and current case studies and examples of copyright instruction for undergraduates.

A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate STEM Majors’ Copyright Knowledge and Educational Experiences

“…15 Elizabeth Joan Kelly provides an in-depth review of the literature on copyright instruction for undergraduates including best practices of rights instruction along with several case studies of current teaching practices geared toward the specific learning needs of undergraduate students. 16 Gail Clement and Stephanie Brenenson discuss an innovative approach by situating copyright instruction in popular culture or familiar media and asking students to "contemplate their roles, responsibilities, and choices as they create and disseminate projects and papers throughout the course of their academic careers." 17 Molly Keener outlines case scenarios that highlight allegations of infringing activities as a way to reach undergraduates with topics that interest them.…”

Conocimiento sobre temas de Derechos de Autor en estudiantes de Biblioteconomía y Documentación

“…In the literature, several studies have analyzed the inclusion of legal content related to copyright in the LIS curricula, because university librarians are often considered experts in this area (Kelly, 2018).…”

Copyright literacy of library and information science professionals in Pakistan

“…The literature suggests that there has been a wide range of international studies undertaken in this area of knowledge (e.g. Arias Coello et al, 2020;Boustany, 2014;Eye, 2013;Hossain, 2021;Kelly, 2018;Kortelainen, 2015;Fernandez-Molina et-al., (2022); Patel and Hanumappa, 2019;Terra, 2016;Todorova et al, 2017), but in Pakistan copyright literacy is a somewhat less-researched area. In this context, the current study has been undertaken to fill this literature gap by investigating the copyright literacy of LIS professionals in Pakistan, which is a potential area of research.…”