Submitted by Anthony Brown Ikwueme
Thomas
Walker is the new associate librarian for collection management with the
Ehrhorn Law Library at Liberty University School of Law. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in Music with emphases in Double Bass Performance, Music Composition,
and Media Studies; additionally he holds, a Master of Science in Library
Science from Clarion University and is completing his doctoral dissertation in
Higher Education Administration at Marshall University.
Prior
to joining the world of academia, Thomas was a television news director and worked
for NBC. He has also freelanced for MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, and
NASA.
His
experience with copyright covers three major areas of user (television news),
owner (composer and musician), and lender (librarian). He has presented
on copyright and recorded media, copyright issues with printed scores and
copyright and music collections in the modern library.
Thomas
was a member of the Copyright Compliance Team at Marshall University; a member
of the Copyright Committee with the Association for Recorded Sound, and the
Music Library Association. In addition to his committee work and
presentations, Thomas worked directly with Dr. Júlio Alves on copyright clearance
for several of his publications as well as assisted with mechanical rights for
several Marshall University recordings. He also served as
an administrator for the Marshall University Institutional Repository, Marshall
Digital Scholar, where he worked exclusively with authors and publishers to
obtain republishing rights for their scholarly output, which he feels, is
paramount for the modern library.
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