Annual Vote to Digitize for the Public Domain

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Help us choose the material that will be digitized for January 2024 as part of the Libraries’ annual celebration of the public domain! Each year, copyright will expire for a new group of creative works, and those works will fall into the public domain. As part of the public domain, they can be freely used by anyone to create new works and adaptations, fueling new ideas and projects. Find out all about copyright expiration and the public domain on the Libraries’ Copyright guide.

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We have searched our physical collections to find the rarest titles whose copyright will expire in 2024, and now we need your help to figure out which 24 to digitize. Please vote for your favorites below (choose up to 24)!

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Sheet music – Wednesday night waltz : song by Williams, Spencer

Die italienischen Handschriften des Dugento und Trecento by Hermann, Hermann Julius

Tampa and Hillsboro bays, Fla. Letter from the secretary of war transmitting report from the chief of engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Tampa and Hillsboro bays, Fla., and Tampa harbor, Fla. … by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

The Blythe girls, The disappearance of Helen, or, The art shop mystery by Hope, Laura Lee

Prejudice against the Jew : its nature, its causes and remedies : a symposium by foremost Christians published in the American Hebrew, April 4, 1890

Die Widerlegung der Versailler Kriegsschuldthese by Wegerer, Alfred von

Sheet music – I don’t want to fly : (away from Tampa Bay) by Valdespino, Mary

Le vitrail du XIIe siècle au XVIIIe siècle en France by Gaudin, Félix

Informaciones para emigrantes

Happy Jack Squirrel’s bright idea by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)

Women of the underworld by Chesterton, Ada Elizabeth Jones

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue at Shore Acres by Hope, Laura Lee

Tour in 1867 by Carroll, Lewis

Armenia and the Near East by Nansen, Fridtjof

Sheet music – Tampa Florida march by Ficcio, V. (Valentino)

Billy Smith, exploring ace, or, By airplane to New Guinea by Sainsbury, Noël

The outdoor girls at New Moon Ranch by Hope, Laura Lee

Sheet music – Let me forget by Williams, Clarence

The Bobbsey twins and their schoolmates by Hope, Laura Lee

Out for sport, or, Fin and feather by Kincaid, Wallace

How to get a husband by Van Deventer, Betty

Sheet music – I’m going to Miami by Minnick, A. D.

Grandes bailes : para la inauguración de la reapertura del Salón artisticamente decorado

The case for and against sexual sterilization

Flying ace stories : three complete books in one volume by Sainsbury, Noel

Chemical character of waters of Florida by Collins, W. D. (William Dennis)

The notorious Ashley gang; a saga of the king and queen of the Everglades by Stuart, Hix Cook

Are we machines? : Is life mechanical or is it “something else”? by Darrow, Clarence

Négy régi magyar népdal férfikarra. Vier altungarische Volkslieder für Männerchor by Bartók, Béla

When it’s cocktail time in Cuba by Woon, Basil Dillon

Sheet music – Miami moon by Piggott, E. St. Clair

The host to millions : Tampa cigars

A Shanghai adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

How New York working girls live by Van Deventer, Betty

“El intérprete” : diccionario Cortina no. 3, de las diez mil palabras más usuales en español y en inglés, ampliado con un suplemento de materias… by Cortina, R. Diez de la (Rafael Diez de la)

Tampa : Florida’s greatest city

Hitler-Lieder by Steiger, Hans

Survey of Negro colleges and universities : section of Bulletin, 1928, no. 7, chapter XIII, Florida

Pleistocene mammals from a cave in Citrus County, Florida by Simpson, George Gaylord

Sheet music – Oh dem golden slippers! by Bland, James A. (James Allen)

Sheet music – This is Florida by Drane, Mary W.

Six little Bunkers at Happy Jim’s by Hope, Laura Lee

Can the individual control his conduct? : is man a free agent or is he the slave of his biological equipment? by Darrow, Clarence

The U.S.S. Yankee on the Cuban blockade : 1898

100 professions for women by Van Deventer, Betty

Beach deposits of ilmenite, zircon and rutile in Florida by Martens, James, H. C.

Tom Swift and his talking pictures; or, The greatest invention on record by Appleton, Victor

Confessions of a modern woman : what does she say, think, feel, and do? by Van Deventer, Betty

Lives of chorus girls : a realistic picture of an interesting and sometimes romantic profession by Van Deventer, Betty

Sarasota visitors’ guide

Resource map of Florida by Green, H. H.

A series of eleven lessons in karma yoga (the yogi philosophy of thought-use) and the yogin doctrine of work by Bhikshu, pseud.

The art of digesting ideas by Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel)

What the woman past forty should know by Fielding, William J. (William John)

Aboriginal wooden objects from southern Florida (with three plates) by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Girl scouts in Glacier park by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Tropical and sub-tropical fruits, fancy palms, ornamental trees & shrubs

Stories of the Seminoles by Fairlie, Margaret C.

Sheet music – My Miami moon by Herscher, Lou (Louis)

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