Please post responses to the list, or Susan, could you summarize responses
sent to you directly?  I'm in a small special library also, and am very
interested in the issue of table of contents routing and possibly scanning
into e-mail.

Thanks.

Martha Parsons
WSU/CE Energy Program Library
parsons@halcyon.com
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Susan Harman wrote:
>I'm asking for help from the good people of Autocat and Serialst after
>what seems like a long time lost in the archives and logs of both lists.
>I could swear I saw something on one of these about scanning tables of
>contents into an in-house e-mail system and/or copyright of tables of
>contents.  Perhaps some kind soul can point me in the right direction.
>
>Our library currently has an ordinary, fairly low-tech TOC routing service
>for our inhouse staff.  Our online check in system prompts us when we
>check in a journal someone has asked for TOC for, we photocopy it, and
>deliver it.  Last year we got e-mail software on our building-wide
>network.  We're working on next year's budget and the library director
>would like to include money for a scanner.  This way we could scan the TOC
>into the e-mail system and save a lot of time.  With this option, the TOCs
>would just go to those inhouse staff who requested the title, or possibly
>to the whole staff.
>
>Just recently we created a fledgling home page on the Internet and the
>powers that be want to have more 'stuff' on it so our members will see
>what a fabulously wonderful service the home page is.  (We are a
>non-profit association.)  The library director was thinking about perhaps
>putting the scanned TOCs on the home page too, but we are concerned about
>copyright issues.
>
>Obviously there are commerical TOC services and I'm sure some of them at
>least are online now.  We don't subscribe to any of them because of the
>expense involved.  We also wondered if copyright issues were different
>if we had the TOCs on a section of the home page that only our members
>could access, as opposed to just 'out there' where anyone could call up
>our URL and find them.
>
>I seem to recall some discussion on one of the lists as to whether TOCs
>were under copyright in the same way that articles are, etc.  I've
>starting surfing around some of the copyright web resources, but have not
>winnowed things down yet.
>
>I'd appreciate responses from the list--even if this question seems like a
>'no brainer'.  Please send directly to me, unless the rest of the list has
>a burning desire for the answers.  Thanks.
>
>Susan Harman
>Medical & Chirurgical Faculty Library
>techserv@access.digex.net
>
>