[Wactclc-alma] Kanopy and faculty/employee use

[Bem, Greg]

We open it up to anyone at the school for any reason.

It’s better to not add restriction statements to the use of a product, and instead limit the content that’s available. We were seeing striking quantities of people watching some of the titles that did not seem very academic (the award winning documentaries, the popular fictional films, etc), and so we deactivated those publishers in Kanopy and now we have a more reasonable usage rate. We still get the titles that are relates to the academic programs, and tell folks that if they’re looking for “the full” Kanopy, they can go to the public library (KCLS provides access to Kanopy).

Greg

Greg Bem, MLIS
Professor and Library Coordinator
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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Moore
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:04 PM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Kanopy and faculty/employee use

Hey all,

Not so much an Alma collection but a resource question.

I've been told about a conversation a few years ago about switching to Kanopy and what it might mean for our faculty and employees. The chief concern is, are faculty allowed to use Kanopy for personal use? It's a resource paid for with state funding, so personal use should be prohibited; on the other hand, if a faculty member wanted to come check out a fiction novel for some beach reading, we wouldn't block that.

If you have Kanopy, what do you tell your faculty and employees?

-Dan
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