These days, it seems like all we librarians do is create videos videos videos. Night after night, we leave our offices with foggy, blurred vision from staring at Camtasia editing software for hours.
The LibVidAward Blog highlights some of the best, most inspirational library instructional videos out there.
Please nominate your favorite libvids for the LibVid awards! Send your nominations to: nominations [aT] libvid-awards [dot] com
Here are some of the categories we are collecting nominations for:
- Best acting – Librarian
- Best acting – non-librarian
- Best animation
- Best editing
- Best narration
- Best comedy
- Best drama
- Best musical
- Best documentary
- Best special effects
- Best attempt to make Boolean interesting
- Best Sci/Tech/Med video
- Best business video
- Best humanities video
- Best social science video
- Best public library video
- Best Really Short Video
- Best Wardrobe or Make-up

Thank you for honoring my film “Tommy’s Trip to the Library!” I love that you appreciated the film and I love that this site exists!
–Ben Taucher
I couldn’t agree MORE with Ben. This website has made me the happiest man in my house…at this moment…until my Dad gets home with fish and chips.
Thank you so much for your kind words and appreciating the difficult art that is making a library film!
You’re welcome, Jon! Congratulations on figuring out a way to make library induction fun. LOL, but in a library whisper.