In 2019, the Authors Guild of the United States announced their intent to pursue federal legislation for public lending rights (PLR). PLR provide remuneration to authors, publishers, and/or illustrators for the circulation of their works in public, and sometimes school, libraries. A number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, instituted PLR in the 1970s and 1980s. This article aims to investigate how public libraries in those three nations responded to the movement for PLR and how the philosophical concerns they raised may inform librarians in the United States.

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澳大利亚、加拿大和英国图书馆员对公共借贷权的回应以及对美国的影响

2019 年，美国作家协会宣布他们打算寻求公共借贷权 (PLR) 的联邦立法。PLR 为作者、出版商和/或插图画家的作品在公共图书馆（有时是学校图书馆）的流通提供报酬。包括英国、加拿大和澳大利亚在内的许多国家在 1970 年代和 1980 年代建立了 PLR。本文旨在调查这三个国家的公共图书馆如何响应 PLR 运动，以及他们提出的哲学问题如何影响美国的图书馆员。