Libraries

Students, do you often end the weekend with the "Sunday Scaries" – worried about what you need to get done before Monday? Stave off those scaries by joining us on Fridays in the Wells Library: one place to make the grade!

Every Friday from February 3 until Spring Break, stop by from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to find your perfect study spot, research and assignment consultations, peer coaches, and academic advisors as well as always-available services like poster printing, Writing Tutorial Services, and the UITS Help Desk.

And of course we'll serve up supersized study breaks throughout the day! Donuts and coffee in the morning, pizza at 1:00, and a variety of special food bars at 3:00 will fuel your motivation for free. There'll be table tennis, yard games, and surprise guests. Wrap up your week and find that finish line with IU Libraries!

As of January 1 each year, a new set of copyrighted works enter the U.S. public domain. In other words, their copyright expires and they become free for all to use. In 2023, these works included Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.

Learn about copyright, public domain, and how HathiTrust helped to make many works still under copyright available for remote use during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The month of February brings us Black History Month, which dates back to 1925 when the first "Negro History Week" was announced and subsequently celebrated in February 1926. Fifty years later, in 1976, the celebration was expanded to a full month and continues today.

IU Libraries invites you to join us this month in paying special tribute to the students, past and present, who bring Black brilliance, beauty, and creativity to Indiana University Bloomington. You'll find exhibitions all month in several libraries on campus, and a number of special events from pop-up libraries to book talks to showcases of the arts. And don't miss the full schedule of events at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center as well as the announcement of the new Indiana University Journal of Black Student Experience, hosted by IUScholarWorks.