Every year in January, the copyright protection of a new group of material will expire and become part of the public domain. In 2019, the USF Libraries digitized 19 items from our collections to celebrate these materials becoming freely available to anyone to use and build upon. In January 2020, the USF Libraries digitized 20 items.
Now, we need your help in deciding what 21 items with expiring copyright the USF Libraries will digitize from our collections in celebration of Public Domain 2021. We have pulled a list of possible titles and matched them with the digital collection to which they will be added.
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- Environmental Studies-The birds of Florida : a popular and scientific account of the 425 species and subspecies of birds that are now, and that have been found within the state and its adjacent waters; with special reference to their relation to agriculture by Harold H. Bailey ... illustrated with 76 full page four-color plates, - figuring over 480 birds, by Geo. M. Sutton; and with an outline map of the state showing areas; and a topographical drawing of a bird. 5%, 54 votes54 votes 5%54 votes - 5% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Florida, "The playground of the nation" : presenting an historical, statistical and descriptive sketch of the state, reviewing and emphasizing its unique advantages as the leading winter resort of the South and as an unrivalled productive section for the growing of fruits and vegetables for Northern markets published and distributed by R.L. Polk. 4%, 44 votes44 votes 4%44 votes - 4% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Tampa, Florida's greatest city by the Board of Trade 3%, 37 votes37 votes 3%37 votes - 3% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Tropical Florida : Miami and Palm Beach. 3%, 34 votes34 votes 3%34 votes - 3% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Florida's state song : Oh! Florida words and music by Bert Boynton. 3%, 32 votes32 votes 3%32 votes - 3% of all votes
- Dime Novels-The case of the living head - Dime novel from the Union Jack library 3%, 31 vote31 vote 3%31 vote - 3% of all votes
- Florida Studies-The green bench by Peggy O'Day. 3%, 31 vote31 vote 3%31 vote - 3% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Back on Gasparilla Isle : (Florida prize song of 1925) by Burt W. Spear, Theresa O'Neil, and Tom F. Smith. 3%, 31 vote31 vote 3%31 vote - 3% of all votes
- Sheet Music-On Tampa Bay : a fox-trot song words by John E. Olson ; music by M.H. Dickens. 3%, 30 votes30 votes 3%30 votes - 3% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Endowing Florida's future : education is a debt due from the present to future generations. 2%, 29 votes29 votes 2%29 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-U.S.S. Florida : Christmas-New Year 1925-1926. 2%, 29 votes29 votes 2%29 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-The Scarlet Cockerel; a tale wherein is set down a record of the strange and exceptional adventures of Blaise de Breault and Martin Belcastel in the New world, as members of expeditions sent out by the great Coligny, by C.M. Sublette; with a frontispiece by Frank M. Rines. 2%, 28 votes28 votes 2%28 votes - 2% of all votes
- SCIFI Collection-"Quack!" the portrait of a experimentalist, by Robert Elson. 2%, 27 votes27 votes 2%27 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Adventures with rod and harpoon along the Florida Keys, with 80 illus. from photos. by the author, Wendel H. Endicott 2%, 25 votes25 votes 2%25 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Ocoee : among the lakes and truck fields of Orange County by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce 2%, 24 votes24 votes 2%24 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-On old Clearwater Bay words by Harry S. Ransom ; music by Edwin Ralph Dean. 2%, 23 votes23 votes 2%23 votes - 2% of all votes
- Irish Studies-Here's Ireland, by Harold Speakman, with twelve paintings made by the author ... also several caricatures by "Mac" of Dublin. 2%, 23 votes23 votes 2%23 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Tampa steps out words and music by Frank W. Salley. 2%, 23 votes23 votes 2%23 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Coral Gables, America's finest suburb, Miami, Florida. 2%, 23 votes23 votes 2%23 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Florida, among the palms by Coleman Goetz and Vincent Leslie. 2%, 23 votes23 votes 2%23 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Rinaldi's official guide of South Florida. Edited by Margaret Van Petten. 2%, 21 vote21 vote 2%21 vote - 2% of all votes
- SCIFI Collection-Snow rubies, by 'Ganpat' (M.L.A. Gompertz). 2%, 21 vote21 vote 2%21 vote - 2% of all votes
- "Florida Studies-Bases, reglas y cartabon general de la nivelacion de Tampa, Fla. de 1924. by Comité Nivelador" 2%, 21 vote21 vote 2%21 vote - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-A preliminary report of the limestones and marls of Florida, by Stuart Mossom... 2%, 21 vote21 vote 2%21 vote - 2% of all votes
- SCIFI Collection-Volonor by Glen B. Winship. 2%, 20 votes20 votes 2%20 votes - 2% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Tabby Cat and Kitty Cat make friends with Billy the Goat by Samuel E. Lowe ; illustrations by Ray Gleason. 2%, 20 votes20 votes 2%20 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Social index of winter residents and visitors to Palm Beach and other Florida east coast resorts by the Social Index Association 2%, 20 votes20 votes 2%20 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Florida : way down in Dixie words and music by Draper Bartlett ; arranged by Beulah Roney. 2%, 19 votes19 votes 2%19 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Re-creating in Lakeland and Polk County Florida by the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce 2%, 19 votes19 votes 2%19 votes - 2% of all votes
- SCIFI Collection-The red cord : a romance of China by Thomas Grant Springer ; with an introduction by John Luther Long ; illustrations by S.Y. Pang. 2%, 19 votes19 votes 2%19 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Florida lyric by Abel Green ; melody by Jesse Greer ; uke arr. by David Berend. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Tom Swift and his chest of secrets; or, Tracing the stolen inventions, by Victor Appleton. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-Reglamento de la Sociedad Eureka. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Miami moonlight music by Olive Dungan ; words by Claude E. Pullen. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- children's Lit-Paul Bunyan [by] James Stevens; woodcuts by Allen Lewis. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Flyaways and Cinderella by Alice Dale Hardy ; illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Sheet Music-In old Miami words & music by Dixie Wallace. 2%, 18 votes18 votes 2%18 votes - 2% of all votes
- Florida Studies-The great bowl of Alachua; a summary of opportunity issued by the Alachua County chamber of commerce. 1%, 17 votes17 votes 1%17 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The wonderful lunch boxes Educational Department, Postum Cereal Company, Inc. 1%, 17 votes17 votes 1%17 votes - 1% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Winter Haven by Gray and Fenton. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Peter Cottontail's own paint book verses by Thornton W. Burgess ; drawings by Harrison Cady. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Uncle Wiggily and his muskrat lady housekeeper by Howard R. Garis ; [illustrated by Lang Campbell]. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Sheet Music-In suniland with you melody by Geo. R. Henninger ; lyric by J. Harold Sommers. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Flyaways and Little Red Riding Hood by Alice Dale Hardy ; illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Greycliff girls' great adventure by Harriet Pyne Grove. 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Little Jack Rabbit and the policeman dog by David Cory ; illustrated by H.S. Barbour. 1%, 15 votes15 votes 1%15 votes - 1% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Miami by Al Jolson, B.G. De Sylva and Con Conrad. 1%, 15 votes15 votes 1%15 votes - 1% of all votes
- Sheet Music-Miami you owe a lot to me by Abner Silver, Harry Richman and Joe Browning. 1%, 15 votes15 votes 1%15 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Riddle Club at Sunrise Beach : how they toured to the shore, what happened on the sand and how they solved the mystery of rattlesnake island by Alice Dale Hardy ; illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 1%, 15 votes15 votes 1%15 votes - 1% of all votes
- Florida Studies-The late Bishop Verot, a sermon delivered in the Cathedral of St. Augustine, on Sunday, July 16th, A. D. 1876. 1%, 14 votes14 votes 1%14 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Greycliff girls ranching by Harriet Pyne Grove. 1%, 13 votes13 votes 1%13 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Little Jack Rabbit and Miss Mouse David Cory ; illustrated by H.S. Barbour. 1%, 12 votes12 votes 1%12 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-The Flyaways and Goldilocks by Alice Dale Hardy ; illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 1%, 11 votes11 votes 1%11 votes - 1% of all votes
- Children's Lit-Babbie : the story of Babbie Lee, and some further doings of Peter Loomis and Daphne by Margaret Piper Chalmers ; illustrated by John Goss. 1%, 9 votes9 votes 1%9 votes - 1% of all votes
Total Votes: 1177
Voters: 82
June 25, 2020
- July 25, 2020
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What about “Jefferson and Hamilton : the struggle for democracy in America”? That would be timely for those of us who just watched “Hamilton.” https://usf.catalog.fcla.edu/permalink.jsp?24SF023128245
Great question! And, opportunity for me to reveal a little of what goes on with our list before it gets to the voting stage. Our Public Domain digitization project first pulls a list of materials that, based on publication date, will be entering the public domain in the specified year. Sometimes the list is focused on special collections materials because those are usually more rare, but this is not always the case. The items on the list are then matched to existing digital collections in which they might fit and checked to verify that the publication date and future public domain status are correct. After this we look at how many libraries hold the title and give preference to materials are held by the least libraries. Our final check is to rule out titles that have already been digitized by anyone else. Jefferson and Hamilton: the struggle for democracy in America? has been digitized and added to the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/jeffersonhamilto0000bowe/page/n5/mode/2up.
Thanks for doing this survey!