Library/Educational Media, Part 12
Question 1: Describe what the doctrine of fair use means as it applies to the National Board Certified classroom teacher and the library media specialist.
Answer 1: The doctrine of fair use is a legal term which defines the conditions under which the use of copyrighted material will not be considered an infringement of copyright law. Fair use allows the use of copyrighted material for various purposes: teaching and scholarship activity, research, the reporting of news, and certain types of critical analysis.Use of the copyrighted material must not be such that it diminishes marketplace demand for the original, as would occur with the copying and distribution of books, film, CDs, and software.The person using the copyrighted material must not represent the material as his/her own.
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Question 2: Define the following term: invisible Web.
Answer 2: Internet searches consist of broadly available materials, such as those which might be accessed with common search engines like Google or Yahoo or AltaVista. These are general-purpose search engines, and these lead to what one may call the visible Web. However, there is an underlying network of less-accessible sources called the invisible Web. These sources are not as easily accessed, and some require a password. Others may be accessed but protected by firewalls or other obstacles to entry. The invisible Web often contains a great deal of scholarly information of much better use to researchers than generalized sources. The more accessible of the invisible Web sources are operated by educational and government agencies.
Question 3: Define the following term: meta-search engine.
Answer 3: Conventional search engines like Yahoo or Google have access to millions of catalogued Web pages which can be displayed upon the request for information by a user. A meta-search engine is a way of querying a host of conventional search engines at the same time. The meta-search engine then compiles the results of all the searches and sends them to the user. The advantage of this type of search engine is speed; the disadvantage is that meta-search technologies do not penetrate to the fullest extent of the databases searched. Meta-search protocols stop searching after a number of results are obtained. Sometimes the meta-search query misses certain large and well-known database resources and returns no information.
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