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Daycare Facilities Agreement

 

Apple Microcomputers
. We are pleased to announce that at a Special
Open Meeting of the Douglas College Board on
There are now two Apple II micros in the February 23, 1984, the Board approved an
Library for general student/faculty/staff | agreement between the College and the Dougla
use. There is also a small selection of College Early Childhood Education Society fo
software available including Wordstar, the use of the day care facilities in the
Apple Pilot, Address Book, Apple Writer, Royal Avenue Site. The term of the agreemen
Magic Window, Visicalc, etc. You can, of | is two years commencing February 1, 1984,
course, bring your own software. Blank plus a one year renewal option.

diskettes are for sale in the bookstore. |
Come in and try it out.

Don't know where to start? The Library has} Conyrigh
the videotapes and print resources for two pyuem
independent learning programmes, Little

 

Computers: See How They Run and Bits and The following is excerpted from a letter fro
Bytes. They are both excellent introduct- | the Canadian Book Publishers’ Council. They

 

jons. obviously have taken a very hard line on
copyright infringement but there can be no
Contact Joan Wenman (2120) for further doubt that they are becoming increasingly
information. active in protecting their rights.
Virginia Chisholm Under the Canadian Copyright Act, Section is

(2) (a) provides an exemption for infringe-
ment of copyright for any "fair dealing for
the purposes of PRIVATE study, research,

: hs criticism, review of newspaper summary".
Samual Johnson’s Dictionary However, this does not provide an exemption
. in all circumstances even for the making

As a result of a faculty member's donation,|,+ sryczz copies. Among the questions that
the Library has purchased a copy of Samual |.ould be relevant in assessing whether an
Johnson's famous dictionary. The edition infringement would occur is whether ALL as
we have purchased was produced in 1978 by | opposed to only a PART of the work is copied}
Librarie du Liban in Beirut, Lebanon and iS|,nother the work is intended for later use in
a facsimile of the 1773 4th edition. The |, classroom as opposed to use for PRIVATE
dictionary has 40,000 entries and is famouS|cpypy pyuRPOSES ONLY, and whether it was

for its precision of definition and literary ontemplated that most students would be
illustration. expected to make a copy, thus resulting in
For example, Johnson defines politician as multiple copies. In the later case, we have
"A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance"|been advised that this would almost certainly
NOT be considered to be "fair dealing" by
The interested user will locate this work |canadian courts, whether or not any profit
in the Reference section, call number PE was intended to be made thereby.

1620 J636 1978. Look for two large folio
volumes cased in medium blue cloth with goWyirginia Chisholm
lettering. Thanks to Peter Henderson for
his generous gift.

 

 

 

 

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