In my class at the School of information sciences and librarianship (Université de Montréal) we are doing a triple activity a little bite like the MIT libraries. I invite wikipedian friends on Tuesday, January 15, in my class to celebrate:

The 18 years of Wikipedia
The launch of the # 1lib1ref campaign
and the public domain day :)

From 8:30 am to 10:00 am, I will present the bases and, from 10:00 am, some wikipedians friends will come and say a few words about their commitment and help the students apply these basics during a edit-a-thon workshop. There are 70 students.

This activity will continue in the afternoon, either at the School or in the libraries of UdeM - this will be decided shortly - around public domain. The issue of public domain is very important for Canada too this year for rather different, and even dramatically opposite reasons.

Last fall, under the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), Canada succeeded in preserving the Canadian cultural exemption but, against all odds, this exception now excludes the duration of the copyright terms. Canada will join the "life + 70" category in the same way as the United States and France currently - instead of the international standard of "life + 50 years" of which Canadians had benefited under the Berne Convention which had governed it so far. Canada will therefore experience a freeze on the mass expiration of copyright for the coming two decades. The bright cortege of public domain works will be suspended for the next twenty years.

So in this rather sad context, we will celebrate what could be our last year of public domain before long, writing articles, using images and texts on Wikipedia and other projects. We prepare for this with an Advent Calendar for the public domain (https://domainepublic.savoirslibres.ca/2019/) that we produce all month of December through the 1st of January, Public domain Day.

Cheers !

Marie

Le 2 janv. 2019 à 16:40, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi all!
Is anyone doing anything with public domain day and Wikipedia? We are running an edit-a-thon on Wikipedia Day centered around 1923 books we digitized here at MIT libraries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public_Domain_Day_2019

but I am struggling with what kinds of articles to work on or activities to do.

Any ideas? Is anyone doing something similar in their libraries? I think it would be fun to go through the Hathitrust 1923 collection, which is now open, to see what would be good for Wikipedia: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?c=149827760;a=srchls;q1=*

cheers,

Phoebe

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