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Dr. Kenneth D. Crews, a nationally-known expert in issues surrounding copyright and higher education, will be leading a workshop on Friday, March 10, 2000, at Bowdoin College. The presentation is sponsored by the User Education Committee of the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium. The first part of the workshop (from 10 am to 3 pm), on broad copyright matters, is aimed primarily at Library and Information Services staff members, as well as any campus professional with copyright concerns.

Faculty of the three colleges are invited to the second session (from 4 to 6 pm), which will focus on questions of fair use and intellectual property. Some topics for discussion will include MP3 files, fine images, Web information; the focus will be on copyright and technology.

The day's events will take place in the Lancaster Lounge of the Moulton Union at Bowdoin. Lunch for workshop participants will be served in the Moulton Union's Main Lounge.

Kenneth Crews is an Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and in the IU School of Library and Information Science. He is also the Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management; in that capacity, he directs Indiana University's Copyright Management Center based at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Professor Crews brings a variety of academic and professional experiences to his duties at the University. He earned his undergraduate degree in history from Northwestern University and received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis . He practiced general business and corporate law in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1990, primarily for the entertainment industry. During those years, Crews returned to graduate school and he earned his M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA's School of Library and Information Science.

His principal research interest has been the relationship of copyright law to the needs of higher education. His book, Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education, was published by The University of Chicago Press in October 1993, and it reevaluates understandings of copyright in the context of teaching and research at the university. Professor Crews is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and at colleges and universities across the country, whenever copyright and fair use are critical issues.

Crews brings a wide range of experience to the task. He has been a faculty member in three disciplines: law, business, and library and information science. His publications encompass the fields of copyright, constitutional law, political history, and library science.

at Bates: Kirk Read, Department of French,
at Bowdoin: Rosemary Roberts, Department of Mathematics
at Colby: Michael Donihue,Department of Economics

For the workshop session, please contact the following by March 7thth so that we may get a count for the lunch.

Please contact:
at Bates: Linda Spugnardi, Paula Matthews, Maryann Hight
at Bowdoin: Judy Montgomery, Peter Schilling
at Colby: Marilyn Pukkila, Jackier Tanner