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Yeah, we apparently don't have clear definition now.
As far as copying for your own education use--that's fine. Students, faculty (anyone) can go to the library and copy until their hearts content. Librarians don't check on it at all--just have copy machines one every floor of the university library stacks.
It's just gets murkier when it's faculty making copies of things and giving them to their students. At my old university it was gotten around by just making the articles available in the copy room for students to read or copy on their own and putting them in library reserves for undergrads to check out for an hour to read or copy on their own.
My new university got sued for doing more than that, and is fighting it arguing that it's fair use to give chapter, journal articles etc. to students for educational purposes. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
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