Bio
An information professional with qualifications in archives, librarianship and records management, Jean Dryden has many years of experience as a staff archivist and archival administrator in the public and non-profit sectors. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Toronto, 2008) investigated the copyright practices of Canadian archival repositories in making their holdings available online. While a faculty member at the University of Maryland (2008-2011), she completed a grant-funded comparative study of the copyright practices of American repositories.
In 2015, she completed a Master of Laws degree specializing in intellectual property at Osgoode Hall Law School. She represents the International Council on Archives (ICA) at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Copyright Committee and is a member of the ICA’s Expert Group on Legal Matters. She is the author of numerous presentations and publications on copyright issues, including Demystifying Copyright: A Researcher’s Guide to Copyright in Canadian Libraries and Archives, 2nd ed. (2014). A well-known copyright educator, she has presented scores of workshops on copyright to archivists, librarians and educators in Canada and the U.S.