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).
Leimeux Library at Seattle University created this public service announcement to advise their patrons about the construction that would likely create a frustrating experience for them in the library, and yet they did so in a completely charming and cheerful manner, complete with animation and sound effects! What better way to stave off complaints from potentially agitated library patrons? Communication and cuteness, it wins every time!
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.
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.
I’ve been thinking about animation for libvids for a while now and I think it offers a lot of possibilities. Of course students are thinking about animation more and more too. It’s great to see libraries supporting this interest, and providing the tools for students to create their own animation projects. This video from the Texas Tech Libraries, nominated in the Best Animation category, is beautifully done while showing the powerful creative tools available to students in the library’s Digital Media Studio.
Rutgers University, Camden has been producing some great animators recently so it’s nice to see Vibiana Bowman and her co-conspiring reference librarians at the Paul Robeson Library putting all that skill to good use. This video, nominated for Best Animation and Best Comedy, is part of set of three that tackle the always amusing topic of Plagiarism (how I wish WordPress had a Scary or Creepy font for that word). There is even a quiz. Yes, folks, actual assessment! While the setting is a 1950s classroom, complete with blue-haired teacher, the animation style is hilariously Gilliam-esque. It’s just like that famous Monty Python anti-cheating skit that never was. Only in New Jersey. And by librarians.
Our friends over at the University of Texas – Austin’s Perry Castaneda Library nominated this video for the Best Animation category. It is one of the highlights of a contest they ran last Spring that awarded $100 (!) for the best student created library videos. It looks like everyone had a lot of fun and, as you can see from this selection, the quality is really high.
This video, created by student Ramona Bellamy, is a bright, quick-paced animation with a snappy soundtrack. The drawings are simple but cool and the timing is excellent. It is short enough to maintain the viewer’s focus and sells the Ask-a-librarian program with style.
Click here to find out more about the contest. And check out other the other winners on the UTLibraries youtube channel.
Performed in a stirring graphic novel-type format and is nominated for Best Animation and Best Really Short Video. Research Minutes shows a helpless student being schooled by an intrepid librarian on reading citations. All the while, Flight of the Bumble Bee whirles around in the background. Suspenseful but with a very happy ending.
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