My library has had a wonderful summer student working with us this year. One project she took on was to create a “library tour video” for us. Prior to this summer she had not worked in a library, but she just “gets it”. So, we let her decide on the content, direct us, and produce the video. She did a wonderful job! Yes, we are not all great in front of the camera, but I think we did ok … and we certainly tried hard.
As the Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources Library is hidden away on the third floor of a government building in Whitehorse, we are hoping that this video helps potential clients feel more comfortable about coming to the library. EMR Library tour page can be found here, with the video and a brief photographic tour. The icing on the cake is that a local band, Soir de Semaine (thanks again!!), permitted us to use one of their songs in the video!
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Tagged: Librarians, Libraries, Library tour, Special libraries, video
Days four and five of the Library day in the life event
Thursday:
- lots of miscellaneous paperwork (from HR to Finance …)
- Attended the 2nd keynote at Handheld Librarian Online Conf (“Mobility and singularity: people, communication, information, information objects and information services in motion” Tom Peters). It was a very interesting session. I especially found the discussion of the future of travel and the new values we attribute to “local” very interesting. Two of my co-workers attended the whole conf and found it very useful and interesting. It is wonderful to be able to access such sessions from the Yukon!
- short lunch (didn’t go home today!)
- Ref desk
- worked on more HR paperwork
Friday (not in chronological order this time)
- Ref desk
- Benefit of having a WONDERFUL summer student … she has video experience and lots of enthusiasm so we were filming a “library tour” video all day. Ran into problems with our first take as the video camera’s file format just wouldn’t “compute” with our software, so we re-shot the whole thing on a different camera, which did the trick. Editing will be done on Monday!
- looked for creative commons music to use in video
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Tagged: librarydayinthelife, Special libraries
