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Liaisons

Loyola Notre Dame Library connects each subject discipline with a librarian liaison who develops collaborative relationships with faculty about collections, scholarship and instruction, and library services. 

For more information about how the library can support your research and instruction needs, please contact Kate Campbell, Health and Natural Sciences Librarian, at kcampbell5@ndm.edu

What your librarian can do for you:

  • Communicate library resources and services
  • Offer consultation on topics including information literacy instruction, records management and archives, resource sharing and access, copyright, research data management, and metadata

How you can collaborate with the library:

  • Share information about your program with the library, including new degrees, new course offerings, new faculty appointments, and upcoming accreditation visits
  • Communicate library-related needs, concerns and suggestions

Teaching Support

Copyright Information Center

The Copyright Information Center provides education about copyright matters to faculty, staff, and students at Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University through online help guides, individual consultations, and workshops. 

This information is designed to explain U.S. Copyright laws and how they apply to basic copyright questions that arise in the course of academic work. The information should not be considered legal advice. For legal guidance please contact university counsel.

Copyright Law

Information about the following aspects of copyright law and related matters is available on the Copyright Information Center Research Guide.

Copyright Policy

The library seeks to fulfill its mission of providing information services and resources while also complying with copyright law. The purpose of this copyright policy is to outline guidelines for common uses of copyrighted materials within the Loyola Notre Dame Library while carrying out its mission.

LNDL Copyright Policy

 

DMCA Agent

The Loyola Notre Dame Library complies with all provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998). If you have a concern about use of copyrighted material on any Loyola Notre Dame Library site please contact the designated DMCA Agent:

Danielle Whren Johnson
Copyright and Special Projects Librarian
200 Winston Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21212
dwhren@loyola.edu
dwhren@ndm.edu
410-617-6872

The DMCA requires that notices of alleged copyright infringement be in writing and include the following information:

  • Identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed.
  • A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information sufficient to permit the Loyola Notre Dame Library's agent to locate the material.
  • Contact information for you, including your address, telephone number, and/or email address
  • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the owner's agent, or by the law.
  • A statement by you that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, you are authorized on behalf of the owner to enforce the copyrights that are claimed to be infringed.
  • A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner.

For more information visit Copyright.gov.

The Library can assist faculty with digitizing articles, book chapters, or other materials to meet accessibility standards for use in Moodle or Brightspace. Submit a request for digitization.

Instructions for faculty:

  • Identify articles or book chapters needed.
  • Ensure your request adheres to copyright law.
    • Copyright law does not usually allow entire books (only selected chapters) or multiple journal articles from a single issue to be digitized unless permission has been cleared with the publisher. The Library will not digitize entire course packs.
    • The item must be owned or licensed by the Loyola Notre Dame Library or must be a legally owned personal copy of the instructor, department, or university.
    • Interlibrary Loan materials are for personal research only and may not be used as course materials. To use an item not currently owned by the Library or yourself, fill out the purchase request form or contact your library liaison to request that the Library order the material.
    • For items not accessible via online databases but under copyright, you are responsible for evaluating, on a case-by-case basis, whether the reserve request qualifies as a fair use. Use the fair use checklist to help make a fair use determination. Contact the Copyright Information Center, Danielle Whren Johnson at dwhren@loyola.edu, dwhren@ndm.edu or 410-617-6872 for help with fair use.
  • Only request the amount of the material needed to accomplish your specific educational purpose.
  • Typically, use should be limited to no more than 10 percent of a book with no chapters or fewer than 10 chapters, or for a book of 10 or more chapters, one chapter or one article per journal issue.
  • Use may exceed the above standards with a well-reasoned fair use argument.
  • If none of the above options apply, the library will obtain permission to use the item as long as the royalties do not exceed $250 per course per semester. Any copyright permissions obtained will be for the current semester only. Additional uses of the material beyond the current semester will require additional permission fees to be paid. Contact the Copyright Information Center at dwhren@loyola.edu, dwhren@ndm.edu or 410-617-6872 for assistance.
  • For items not owned by the library, send materials along with your name, course and the date needed by to the Loyola Notre Dame Library Access Services Department at 410-617-6801. Photocopies need to be clean with no writing or errant marks on them.
  • Once materials have been processed they will be sent to faculty.