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62 it’s more likely to be done electronically and posted online, sometimes on a site controlled by the library (i.e., library e-reserves), but more often on a site controlled by the instructor or an IT staff member using course management software such as Blackboard. This change has shifted some of the responsibility for reserve away from libraries, but libraries will still face copyright questions when instructors ask for guidance or ask for electronic copies to post online.

We think that course Web sites and library e-reserves are not very different from paper reserves, and that the Model Policy can provide a framework for electronic copies. The Model Policy views library reserve as an extension of the classroom, and provides that at the request of a faculty member, a library may copy and place on reserve an entire article, a book chapter, or a poem. Some of the Model Policy’s guidelines apply equally in a print or online environment:

We can also borrow some ideas from the Conference on Fair Use’s (CONFU) Fair-Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems, even though the conferees never reached consensus on them, and The Code of