If you can't find what you want to use among your libraries' offerings, openly licensed online, and your use doesn't qualify as fair use, getting permission is becoming easier every day. For pointers to collective rights agencies, information about transactional and subscription licenses, and important considerations in the process of obtaining permissions, please see getting permission. If you have a choice about what materials you use for a particular purpose, consider also that you can eliminate the need for item-by-item- permission to use others' works if you choose works that are already licensed for the use you plan to make. For example, there may be appropriate materials for your purposes already licensed by your library; appropriate materials may be available with Creative Commons licenses that allow nonprofit educational uses without permission; or materials may be freely available online that carry implied rights to make uses as you plan. Information about these choices is available in accessing and using library resources, at Creative Commons, in content on the web, and managing your copyrights.
