Tammy Ravas is the Arts and Media Librarian and Copyright Coordinator at the University of Montana's Mansfield Library, USA. She earned a Master of Library Science and a Master of Arts in music history from SUNY at Buffalo. She has pursued teaching, research, and service interests in copyright beginning with the complex issues inherent within music resources. In 2015, she developed a general education course on copyright for undergraduate students that she continues to teach today.