If they had Internet in the 70s…

2 08 2011

The librarians at Greenfield Community College are dedicated. They will round up students with pressing library need and deliver them to the library where librarians with awesome nicknames like “Shoes,” “Downtown,” and “Jackie” will use all their librarian powers to help get student research accomplished.

Nominated for Best Comedy and Best Spoof, we’re also impress that the GCC Librarians were able to convince GCC Public Safety that lights AND sirens were needed to make this library video excellent.


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Categories : Best Comedy, Best Spoof

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

20 07 2011

We love a library video with a cliffhanger, and this library orientation video from Nova Southeastern University in Florida has got a tough one. Maria goes on vacation. Maria realizes that she’s forgotten about a term paper that’s due in three days! And she’s miles and miles and miles from the library. Uh oh. What’s Maria going to do?

We’ve nominated it for Best Animation, and we hope that Maria manages to get her paper written (and that she buys an day planner).


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Categories : Best Animation

“Check out that book, like, yeah”

12 07 2011

This inspirational library video helps all of us to recognize that you don’t need to have a Julliard-trained voice in order to make an awesome library music video. You’ve got some strong library feelings? Belt them out!

Paying homage to the Miley Cyrus ditty “Party in the USA,” we learn that you can also party in the library. Of course, we librarians know that every day is a party in the library!

It’s nominated in two categories: Best Musical and Best Spoof.


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Categories : Best Musical, Best Spoof

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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Categories : Best Special Effects, Best Spoof, Uncategorized

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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Categories : Best Musical

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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Categories : Best Comedy, Best Editing, Best Narration, Uncategorized

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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Categories : Best Acting -Non-librarian, Uncategorized

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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Categories : Best Animation, Uncategorized

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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