Digital Rights Management

Grace Agnew is Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.Grace Agnew is a noted author and lecturer on digital rights management, metadata and digital video. She is the architect of the Moving Image Collections (MIC) portal, a union catalog for the world’s moving images, which is co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). She was a principal investigator for the NSF Middleware Initiative invitational workshop, ‘Digital Rights Management for Research and Education’; she served as an advisor to the American Library Association on the technical implications of the TEACH Act and is the co-author of two books published by the American Library Association.

• Copyright; Privacy and other rights; The resource in digital rights management; The agent in digital rights management; Digital rights metadata: Describing rights and rights workflow; The technology of digital rights management; Putting the pieces together.

…provides excellent guidance not only for developing a digital rights framework for the library, but also for empowering libraries to play an important role in drafting a future DRM landscape., Canadian Library Association Journal: FeliciterClearly a specialist publication aimed at systems librarians or electronic resources managers., ProgramThe content is full of useful examples and good descriptions. …clear writing and willingness to engage with difficult technologies and complex issues. It is highly recommended., The Electronic Library (Emerald Publishing)