Saturday, April 12th, the library will be sponsoring a copyright forum for students: Culture of Sharing: P2P, YouTube, Open Access, Open Source, copyright and Why it Matters to You!
This is new ground for us in a few ways:
- We want the forum to be about what students can (legally) do, more than about what they can’t do
- We are planning the content to be of interest to students and have done our best to get students engaged in the planning process.
- We want to show that the library has a stake and unique expertise in the important issue of copyright education
We are grappling with the idea of how to advertise to students, so doing a Facebook group and ads, fliers around campus, “chalking” (a UW phenomenon?), and offering free food. We’re learning a lot from these forays (why is our Facebook group so buried? what is the new pricing structure for ads?). Unfortunately, we ended up with the same date as the college Jeopardy tournament, but we are hopeful that people will come and that this will be an event that we can build on in the future.
