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.

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).

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.

One word:  OMGBABIEZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This LibVid is cute enough to make the ovaries of any librarian quiver with longing, even they’re not female!  You’d have to be made of stone to not to crack a smile at the joyous laughter of a baby in his crib reading a book, and the adorable father that peers over him.  For all the warm fuzzies that the Finnish Library Association generates with “Like Father, Like Son,” we are nominating this video for Best Foreign Language Video (okay, so baby cooing is probably a universal language, but this does come to us from Finland!) and Most Heartwarming.

Awesomer or awkwarder than the gang from the University of Washington Information School?  They are in for some stiff competition from this creative bunch at Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia, who responded to recent budget cuts for libraries with this rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s disco hit, “I Will Survive.”  Nominated for Best Musical, this video serves as a reminder to our patrons that libraries are still there to serve them, even in these trying times!

And as if you needed additional reasons to visit your local library, apparently libraries now come with shirtless men on the loading dock!

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!

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.

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!)

Once upon a time, I wandered into a barber shop that sported an “Official Haircuts for Men and Boys” poster over the cash register.  Anachronistic even for Dallas in the mid-1980s, I thought it was hilarious.  Since that time I’ve been a huge fan of the 1950s/1960s era films, filmstrips, and posters that were meant to guide the impressionable youth of the time on to the path of correct behavior.

The good folks at the J.Michael Goodson Law Library at Duke, with staff from their Academic Technology department too, have taken those social etiquette films to heart in this libvid, a response to patron complaints about behavior in the library.  This reader submitted (thanks!) nomination is for Best Narration category.  Interlibrary Loan manager, Lee Cloninger’s radio voice harks back to the golden age of youth focused propaganda instruction.  In fact the entire production was just swell!

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.