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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks so much, Diedre! I posted about online storytimes just yesterday on kids-lib, if anyone here would like to join kids-lib for daily youth services messages,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Diedre Conkling<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> libs-or <libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] Fwd: [PubLib] Online storytimes and copyright issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This response on PUBLIB has great information about copyright and doing online storytimes. I thought some of you would find it very useful.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:01 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [PubLib] Online storytimes and copyright issues<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:37 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Subject: <b>Online or video story time and fair use.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">I received your message about online story time. I’m the copyright specialist for ALA, and while I cannot provide you with legal advice, here is my professional opinion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Forgive me if this has already been discussed, I have fallen behind on reading listervs lately!<br>
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Does anyone have a one-stop-shopping source for checking copyright rules regarding using children's books for online storytimes? The sheer number of individual links staff are coming up with are way too much to check.<br>
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Maybe there is a better system someone has devised to streamline this process?<br>
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I love that staff are ready to go with programming, and I hate to dampen enthusiasm with too many hoops to jump through, but we want to follow the rules as well.<br>
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Deana<br>
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Deana Cunningham, MLS<br>
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Alamance County Public Libraries<br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/342+S.+Spring+St.+Burlington,+NC+27215?entry=gmail&source=g">342 S. Spring St.</a><br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/342+S.+Spring+St.+Burlington,+NC+27215?entry=gmail&source=g">Burlington, NC 27215</a><br>
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Page</a> <a href="http://www.friendstnlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/FOTL-Ethical-Dozen-for-Friends-of-the-Library-18Sept2015.pdf" target="_blank">Friends Ethical Statement</a> <a href="http://www.friendstnlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/Parent-Tips-for-Reading-Aloud-Sept-2014-Imagination-Week-Handout-REV-FINAL1.pdf" target="_blank">Parent
Tips for Reading Aloud</a> <a href="http://www.friendstnlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/Final-Sept2015FOTL-TOOL-KIT-for-Building-a-Library-Friends-Group-REV-Sept2015.pdf" target="_blank">Tool Kit for Building Friends Group</a> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#042EEE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Retired Director, Nolichucky Regional Library, Tennessee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Founding Director/Former President, Association for Rural and Small Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#042EEE"><a href="http://rurallibrarydirectors.pbworks.com/" target="_blank">Rural & Small Library Directors’ Tool Kit</a></span></u><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#008F00"> </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#042EEE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">and in no way are to be considered flaws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">~ Aesop</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#941100">I believe without laughter there’s no point at all.</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#941100"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#941100">~<b> Lauren Bacall</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AE1916">Be Happy. It's one way of being wise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AE1916">~ Sidone Gabrielle Colette</span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AE1916"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#55136B">Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet!</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#55136B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0433FF">Since retiring, I wake up in the morning with nothing to do -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0433FF">and by bedtime it's only half done. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0433FF">~ Bill Yates, <b>small society</b></span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0433FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#942193">God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#942193">right now, I'm so far behind, I will never die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#942193">~ Anonymous</span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#942193"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#008F00">~ Radio news announcer in <b>The Runaway Bride</b></span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#008F00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#ED45CD">It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FF2D22">Take change by the hand before it takes you by the throat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FF2D22">~ Sam McKinney</span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FF2D22"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">~ Irene Peter</span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h6>“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”―Maya Angelou<o:p></o:p></h6>
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