With so many library systems under threat of hours cutbacks, collections budget cuts, and branch closures, library advocacy is clearly an important outreach job for librarians. This video, nominated for Best Foreign Language Video and Best Public Library Video, is one of many from public librarians in New York City. While the NYPL has a series of very high profile (and high budget) ad videos that feature Tim Gunn, Bett Midler, and many other cultural luminaries, I prefer videos like this that feature the real and non-famous) people that are served by their local public library. This particular video, in Spanish, allows a real NYPL patron to explain what her library means to her.
There are lots of videos like this and I hope there will be lots more!
By the way, we don’t know who made this one or which branch it features but if you know, we’d be happy to acknowledge them.
Hitchcock
Coppola
Iñárritu
