...Rebecca Mgunda Majinge; Stephen Mudogo Mutula Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implication of copyright on access to electronic and print information resources by people with visual impairments in university libraries. The paper examines the extent to which electronic and print...

... or permanent retention. Libraries are now simply caretakers of information as they do not own the copyright of the material they hold and, thus, cannot freely digitize and provide access to the copyrighted materials (Cleveland, 1998). For instance, libraries normally need to subscribe to licensing agreements...

... and advanced technical skills who singlehandedly set the digital ball rolling. Believing that users needed to be able to access documents that few people knew existed without coming to the physical library, he set out to digitize some of the intriguing government documents in the collection under his aegis...