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Congrats on publishing!

Will you consider putting a Creative Commons license on your pdf book so that others can use it to teach? A CC BY NC ND will allow someone to use it as a textbook, not edit it, and not profit of if it, while allowing people to download it for free. CC licenses are copyright :). Your employers librarians can help. With the copyright you have (all rights reserved), many instructors wouldn’t be able to use it. There are other licenses, if you wanted others to build off your work (remove the ND, for example).

Sincerely, the Open Education Movement :)

That’s great news! Many who would come across the PDF of the book would see the all right reserve and fear the book pirated. If one of the instructors at my institution sent me the PDF, and asked to use it I would be hesitant because you could pull the free copy at any time, so we would tell them they couldn’t use it. If you would like assistance with licensing feel free to send me a DM.

Many instructors would avoid using it because all rights reserved would imply that it is stolen. If students are directed to the website to downloader free copy they can do so but the link could disappear.

That "rip" invention sounds like an amazing lifesaver. Can you start working on it again? Seems like it would make quite a difference in safety!

I recently became the supervisor for the archives dept at the library where I work, in addition to my regular position as a librarian. I have my MLIS, but zero archives experience. My archives assistant has one college level course in archives but no other experience. I'm going to be spearheading a project to create a digital collection. Do you have any advice for us? Thanks :)