Working Behind the Scenes - Our ERA Licence

Quite a lot goes on behind the scenes in a library.  You don't see us ordering and cataloguing the stuff, deciding the best format, the best edition, the best place to put it ... or helping people find online or hard copies of information, or showing them how best to reference it ...

But you also don't see some of the resources we subscribe to.  Not just databases and journals.

 ERA = Educational Recording Agency

Today, we introduce to you ... our ERA Licence.  "A licence?", we hear you ask. What's that to do with me, a library user?

In a conservatoire, we need that licence to enable our teachers to share recorded clips for teaching purposes.  The ERA website tells you much more about this, but the summary just about says it all:-

"The ERA Licence enables educational establishments in the UK to legally make recordings or copies of our Members' TV and Radio programmes and clips for educational use."  Read more ...

•  ERA  Homepage:- https://era.org.uk/