{"title":"Being a Copyright Professional in Museum and Library Land","authors":"Kiowa Hammons","doi":"10.17161/jcel.v6i1.18266","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A big lesson I’ve learned in my career as a copyright specialist is that copyright is an inevitable and essential factor for collecting institutions, but is often overlooked. I attended the Pratt Institute in New York for an MLIS with the intention of working as a librarian in a museum or public library, but as I neared graduation I found the job market and my focus wavering. An internship at Exit Art Gallery digitizing their archives showed me the growing importance of digitization for preservation and access. This internship led me to a job at The Whitney Museum in their Rights and Reproductions department: licensing images and contacting rights holders for permission to use their work. I was finding a unique pathway to archives and collections through copyright research, and the desire of cultural institutions to make these collections more accessible was one I believed in. These skills coalesced when I started at The New York Public Library as a Rights Coordinator, and later as a Manager leading a team to facilitate digitization. The library offered vast collections with copyright webs to untangle, and gave me the chance to utilize my degree as a library specialist in copyright.","PeriodicalId":239303,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v6i1.18266","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A big lesson I’ve learned in my career as a copyright specialist is that copyright is an inevitable and essential factor for collecting institutions, but is often overlooked. I attended the Pratt Institute in New York for an MLIS with the intention of working as a librarian in a museum or public library, but as I neared graduation I found the job market and my focus wavering. An internship at Exit Art Gallery digitizing their archives showed me the growing importance of digitization for preservation and access. This internship led me to a job at The Whitney Museum in their Rights and Reproductions department: licensing images and contacting rights holders for permission to use their work. I was finding a unique pathway to archives and collections through copyright research, and the desire of cultural institutions to make these collections more accessible was one I believed in. These skills coalesced when I started at The New York Public Library as a Rights Coordinator, and later as a Manager leading a team to facilitate digitization. The library offered vast collections with copyright webs to untangle, and gave me the chance to utilize my degree as a library specialist in copyright.
在我作为版权专家的职业生涯中,我学到的一个重要教训是,版权是收藏机构不可避免的重要因素,但却经常被忽视。我在纽约的普拉特学院(Pratt Institute)攻读硕士学位,本打算在博物馆或公共图书馆当一名图书管理员,但临近毕业时,我发现就业市场和我的重点都动摇了。在出口处艺术画廊(Exit Art Gallery)进行档案数字化的实习,让我意识到数字化对保存和访问的重要性日益增强。这次实习让我在惠特尼博物馆的版权和复制部门找到了一份工作:授权图像并联系版权所有者以获得使用他们作品的许可。我找到了一条通过版权研究来获取档案和藏品的独特途径,我相信文化机构希望让这些藏品更容易获得。当我开始在纽约公共图书馆担任权利协调员时,这些技能结合在一起,后来成为领导团队促进数字化的经理。图书馆提供了大量的收藏和版权网络,让我有机会利用我作为图书馆版权专家的学位。