LeEtta M Schmidt

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9567-9065

LeEtta M. Schmidt is the Copyright and Intellectual Property Librarian at the USF Tampa library, providing guidance and education to students, staff, and faculty on their dual roles as creators and users of copyrighted content; helping them reflect on that duality when making decisions on content use and licensing. She has served as Editor of the Taylor & Francis Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Electronic Reserve, and has published articles in CR&L News, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship. LeEtta earned her B.A. in English Literature and her M.A. in Library Science from the University of South Florida. Her research areas include examining all barriers to information including, but not limited to, how international copyright laws affect library activities like interlibrary loan, how organizational differences hamper the access and use of information, and how current copyright law addresses the natural attributes of born digital materials.