Instructional Media
The District Instructional Media Center is located in the Lee Davis Library at the Central Campus. Media centers are also located on both the North Campus and the South Campus.
The Instructional Media Center is a centralized production, purchasing, and distribution center for all areas involving audio-visual services.The Media Center supervises the use of more than 1,100 pieces of equipment and more than 2,200 films, filmstrips, videotapes, and other programs. In addition, center personnel can assist in making 35mm color slides, overhead transparencies, charts, signs, tape recordings, videotapes, and other teaching aids for faculty and staff. Associate deans and/or department chairs have bibliographies of audio-visual materials from which faculty select items appropriate to their teaching assignments.
Guidelines for Using Copyrighted Materials
The following guidelines were compiled from articles concerning the useand limitations of current copyright laws. While these points are a helpful outline of provisions and allowance of the law, they are not intended as a comprehensive explanation of copyright law. It is the stated policy of The San Jacinto College District to abide by the provisions of copyright law in all matters of college printing, videotaping, photocopying or other forms of reproduction for class room and college use.
Reproducing from Print Media
It is legal:
To make a single copy, for use in scholarly research, or in teaching or in preparation for teaching a class, of the following:
- A chapter from a book
- A periodical or newspaper
- A short story, short essay or short poem, whether or not from a collected work
- A chart, graph, diagram, cartoon or a picture from a book, periodical or newspaper
To make multiple copies for classroom use only, not to exceed one copy per student in a class, of the following:
- A complete poem, if it is less than 250 words and printed on not more than two pages
- An excerpt from a longer poem as long as it is limited to 250 words
- A complete article, story or essay if less than 2,500 words
- An excerpt from a prose work, as long as it is less than 1,000 words or less than 10 percent of the work
- One chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture per book or periodical
The copying should be at the instance and inspiration of the individual teacher; and the inspiration and decision to copy the work and the moment of its use for maximum teaching effectiveness should be so close in time that it would be unreasonable to expect a timely reply to a request for permission. In addition, each copy should include a notice of copyright.
It is illegal:
- To make multiple copies of a work for classroom use if it has already been copied with permission for other classes in the same institution.
- To make copies of a short poem, article, story or essay from the same author more than once in a class term, or make multiple copies from the same collective work or periodical issue more than three times a term.
- To make multiple copies of works more than nine times in the same class term.
- To make a copy of works to take the place of an anthology.
- To make a copy of consumable materials such as workbooks, test booklets, answer sheets or exercises.
Copying shall not:
- Substitute for the purchase of books, publisher's reprints or periodicals.
- Be directed by higher authority.
- Be repeated with respect to the same item by the same teacher from term to term.
Reproducing from Sound Recordings
It is legal:
- To make an emergency copy to replace purchased copies of records or tapes which for any reason are not available for an imminent performance provided additional replacement copies are purchased in due course.
- To make single or multiple copies of excerpts of works for academic purposes other than performance, provided that the excerpts do not comprise more than 10 percent of the whole work. The number of copies shall not exceed one copy per pupil.
- To make single copies of recordings of performances by students for evaluation or rehearsal purposes.
- To reproduce excerpts of sound recordings owned by an educational institution for the purpose of constructing oral exercises or examinations.
It is illegal:
- To copy music to create, replace or substitute for anthologies, compilations or collective works.
- To copy music for the purpose of performance except in an emergency where there is not time to ask for permission.
- To copy music for the purpose of substituting the type of format.
- To reproduce any sound recording that is damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen unless it has been determined, after a reasonable effort, than an unused replacement cannot be obtained at a fair price.
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