Moving to online course reserves

["Carrie Vrabel" <Carrie_Vrabel@antiochla.edu>]

Hello,

I am the new Director of Library Services at a small college. 
We are considering moving from print course readers to online 
course readers.  In the past, our copyright clearance has been 
sought by a 3rd party course packet printer.

I have spoken to the CCC regarding their new "blanket license" 
which would, supposedly, cover the full-text material in the 
databases we license as well as our print holdings.

Since we are so small, we rely heavily on a interlibrary loan and 
electronic document delivery service run by our "flagship" 
university.  I understand that in order to acquire copyright 
clearance, we can manually seek permission via CCC's website for 
these materials.

We have very few staff and have also considered outsourcing the 
copyright clearance of our materials.  In particular, we have 
spoken with Xanedu who have quoted us a fairly high price.

I am wondering what experiences any of you may have had regarding 
copyright clearance for electronic materials (and making the 
shift to all-electronic course reserves).  My past experience is 
with larger institutions who still rely on print course readers 
for the majority of their reserves (do any of you know the 
reasoning for continuing to create print readers...is it a bad 
idea to go all-electronic?)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Carrie Vrabel
Director of Library Services
Antioch University Los Angeles
310-578-1080 ex. 334
carrie_vrabel@antiochla.edu