University Libraries Public Domain Celebration

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Each year a group of new works enters the public domain; this year’s works include A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, works by Frida Kahlo, and movie shorts featuring Mickey Mouse.  Celebrating published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain, the Libraries will offer several events during the week of March 10 to honor items in the public domain, including:

• A Wikimedia edit-a-thon – March 13 at 3 p.m. in MIKC 114. Students will learn about copyright and the public domain as they upload images from the University Archives to help spread their reach and usage. Instructors: Please consider offering this as an extra credit opportunity.
• Collage Coasters Makerspace Workshops – Remixing Public Domain Art – March 11 at 10 a.m. and again on March 14 at 2 p.m. in the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library. Participants will make coasters while learning about how they can reuse and adapt works from the public domain.

We’ll also be playing new works in the public domain in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center Atrium through the week as well as featuring faculty who have used public domain material in their research.

To learn more, email Librarian Teresa Schultz.