CCA Libraries partner with the First Year Program to help students navigate the tricky world of creative research. How can students search for images and inspiration more effectively? How can they adapt the work of others in their own projects? How does copyright, fair use, and the public domain impact the ways in which they can reuse, remix, or adapt the creative work of others?
The First Year Program’s learning outcomes prioritize how students can ethically use information sources. Working with CCA Libraries, FYP has developed activities that will help students fulfill these learning outcomes.
These are the key interactions implemented between CCA Libraries and classes in the First Year Program:
- Drawing 1: Faculty and students are encouraged to come into the library and use library architecture and materials as references for drawing and illustration work.
- 2D: Workshops to help students learn how to more effectively use image search and provide attribution for images used in creative projects;
- 3D: Faculty-led activities in Meyer Library that encourage students to engage with the library collections as a source of creative inspiration;
- 4D: Workshops to help students learn the essential basics of copyright law, fair use doctrine, and public domain and how to search for creative content in a variety of formats that they can reuse appropriately in their work.