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University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1976-1978 (No. 28-30)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

Copyright has been a much debated issue of the mid-1970s. Julius Marke here addresses the inherent conflict between the rights of the creator and the needs of the users of intellectual property. He identifies the problems of libraries as disseminators of information and the possible impact of new federal copyright legislation.

In lecture twenty-nine, Doralyn Hickey defines a central problem in American librarianship as a struggle "with the dilemma of providing relevant collections and services while at the same time preserving the materials entrusted to its care so they may be available for serious research and investigation by future generations." …