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.
“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.
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 LibVidAwards 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:
Hitchcock
Coppola
Iñárritu
