Bustin’ makes me feel good!

29 07 2010

Is there anything that will phase New Yorkers?

There they are, in the New York Public Library studying for the LSATs or reading gardening books or doing long division. Here comes a guy dressed up like a Charlie Brown ghost. The ghost sits down with his laptop. Another ghost uses the Oxford English Dictionary. But do the New Yorkers even glance up? Nope.

Then come the Ghost Busters. The New Yorkers look nonplussed.

Nominated for three LibVid Awards: Best Public Library Video, Best Wardrobe, and Best Spoof, we can’t wait to see what kinds of crazy hijinks will happen next at the New York Public Library.


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Categories : Best Public Library Video, Best Spoof, Best Wardrobe or Make-up

Spicy!

15 07 2010

It’s been a quiet humid summer here at the LibVid Awards Offices.  Little did we know, that with this nomination, it was about to get a whole lot steamier.

The advertisement spoof experts at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University are showing us  how it’s done. The Old Spice Man has already made libraries proud, but HBL at BYU has taken it a step further.

New Spice is nominated in two categories: Best Special Effects and Best Spoof. (We also considered adding a new category for Best Biceps!)


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Awesome or Awkward?

3 06 2010

The debate is raging in libraries everywhere:

Is the Lady Gaga tribute created by the students and faculty of the University of Washington’s Information School the most awesome library video of all time? Or it is the most awkward library video of all time?

All we know is that we’d love to use the Information School’s  c-c-c-c-catalog.

It’s nominated for Best Musical.


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From Across the Pond

19 05 2010

I don’t know about you, but I believe in my heart of hearts that “library induction” just has a better ring to it than “library orientation.” The good people at the University of Plymouth in Devon, UK think so too.

This collaboration between the Faculty of Arts librarians  and Jon Mason, a third-year media arts student, consists of a three-video library induction for “fresher students.” Part I expands on the idea that, while the library has books, lots of books, it also has more than just books. Part II explains how to find books and other materials in the library. And Part III moves beyond books and into other electronic resources.

These short libvids (totaling about 7 minutes all together) are also pretty funny, including living history actors, interviews with students in their squalid apartments, and smart editing choices. The upbeat, silly mood ranges from tongue-in-cheek to just plain cheeky.  Super fun to watch.

We’ve nominated this series for three LibVid Awards: Best Editing, Best Narration, and Best Comedy.


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Need. Help. Now.

11 05 2010

This is the story of one very hairy Brown University student’s quest to get the help he needs to write his paper. The assignment [GASP!] is due in [DOUBLE GASP!] four hours. Can one overly-helpful librarian help him find what he needs to research and write his paper in time?

This libvid is one in a six-part series to get Brown students up to speed quickly and easily in finding books, articles, and where to go for help. It’s nominated for Best Acting – Non-librarian for Professor Darrell West’s performance as the Andy’s imaginary Research Fairy.


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All about Peer Review

3 05 2010

North Carolina State University Library’s Peer Review in Five Minutes does just that: it gives an amazingly in-depth explanation of the peer review process. Along with loving description of what scholars go through in order to get their articles published in peer reviewed journals, this LibVid has simple, informative animation.

Nominated for Best Animation, Peer Review in Five Minutes is an excellent place to point students who are confused about what peer review means.


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Claymation Library

17 03 2010

Another student-created video, this LibVid won the University of South Florida Tampa Library student video contest. Calming and mildly mesmerizing, it shows Frankenstein, Moby Dick, and other figures emerging from a claymation book. Complete with references to the library’s coffee shop, helpful resources, and great staff, this is a sweet advertisement for the library. We especially love the video’s original soundtrack.

This video is nominated for Best Animation.


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How to use the Archives

19 02 2010

Using an archive for the first time can be very intimidating.  Nominated for Best Narration, this informative libvid from the University of Manitoba’s Archives and Special Collections walks you through each step of the best way to use the archives. This thoughtful and thorough primer gives friendly tips throughout, defining archive-centric concepts (like finding aids) and explaining basics — from what to bring with you to where to hang your coat.

Perhaps as an homage to the Wizard of Oz, the video starts off with a series of still photographs, and bursts into moving pictures when the protagonist Kerri first enters the Land of Archives.  It picks up speed, ending with a climactic montage of archives dos and don’ts.


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Now don’t get Cocky!

8 02 2010

It’s so hard to give an earnest library introduction when there’s a big red bird trying to upstage you in the background. University of South Carolina’s Dean of Libraries Tom McNally focuses on the task at hand, but USC’s mascot does his best to ham it up.

Dean McNally is nominated for Best Acting – Librarian for not breaking character. And Cocky’s nominated for Best Acting – Non-Librarian for being a crack-up.


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Library – more than just books

29 01 2010

“The Swem Library of the College of William and Mary is more than a storehouse of books. The library is a vital information service center serving all members of the William and Mary Community,”  begins this two-part library video.

This is a thoroughly modern idea — that a library has more to offer than just books. What makes this LibVid interesting is that this is a library introduction from 1969.

It’s fun to note the wonderful 1960s technology, from enormous duplicating machines to space-aged microform reader/printers. But mostly, this library video proves to us that libraries’ missions haven’t actually changed that much in the last 40 years. We still want our patrons to know that we have information that is useful to them.

Introduction to Swem Library is nominated for Best Narration for its authentic midcentury modern narrator.


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