I love hearing stories of libraries fostering and rewarding creativity within their communities. One easy way to do that is to have contests for photography, video, and other media. Last year, mpow’s teen librarian and I planned a photography contest and invited teens to submit their best work with the hopes of making it an [...]
Tagged: contest, creativity, flickr
MPOW broadcast the inauguration live on 5 plasma screens throughout the building. Lots of people stopped what they were doing to watch. It was moving to see our community sharing this historical moment together at the library. Check it out…
Categories: @ the Desk, Libraries, Photos, Politics, Skokie
Usually when I want to create a photo slideshow of a Flickr set, I use a Flickr slideshow generator or something like Pictobrowser. LibrarianinBlack reminded me of Animoto, which is a cool online tool that allows you to make slideshows that are a bit more interesting. Check out this one using pics from our Senior [...]
Categories: Photos
My library is gaming in more ways than one. Recently we had our first Scrabble Open Play event and more than 16 people showed up for some fierce word battles. We provided the deluxe scrabble sets and awarded copies of the Official Scrabble Dictionary to some of the top scorers. And just a few days [...]
