Designing the Library Web Page  

This chapter discusses the use of websites in various library settings, with a special emphasis on the noncommercial or nonprofit library, such as a local public library, school, college, or university library, or those of other philanthropic organizations. While the legal problems involving library web spaces are many, the purpose here is to introduce the issues of linking, posting, or framing in a web space that in turn can raise issues of trespass, trademark, copyright, and defamation. Each area is dealt with in turn, stressing how the application of recent case law may impact the practices of organizations such as libraries in their use of information available on the World Wide Web.

Minow, Mary and Tomas A. Lipinski. American Library Association (2003). Design>Web Design>Intellectual Property