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8bitlibrary.com’s coverage of the 2010 ALA Presidential Election
12 years ago
Today is the first day of voting for the American Library Association elections. Over the next few days we’ll feature interviews with a couple of candidates for various offices. Here’s 3 videos, recorded in full HD, taken Thursday March 11th at the ALA Presidential Candidates event organized by Trevor Dawes at the Princeton Public Library in NJ. Hopefully you can make a more informed voting decision after watching these videos, courtesy of 8bitlibrary.com! Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Twitter, and become a fan on Facebook. (apologies for the audio quality on these videos; we were in Princeton Public’s “Quiet Room” with a group of librarians and they REALLY WERE quiet! crank up the sound while you watch these and then turn it down again afterwords ;-) )
Sara Kelly Johns and Molly Raphael answer a question from Paterson NJ Public Library director Cindy Czesak: “What can ALA do to work better with local chapters?”
Sara Kelly Johns and Molly Raphael respond to East Brunswick NJ Public Library Director MaryEllen Firestone’s issues with the term “Advocacy”:
“Why should new librarians join ALA, especially when $$ is so tight?”
Project Brand Yourself A Librarian: The Flickr Group
42 years ago
ALA Annual is right around the corner. Have you thought about your tattoo yet?
Join our Project Brand Yourself A Librarian Flickr group and add your photos if you’ve already got your library tattoo. Don’t have it yet? Maybe you’ll find some ideas here…
Speaking of ideas, let’s open up this post and discuss ideas for tattoos. What are you thinking of getting and why? Inspiration and sharing!
(and remember, the tag for this project is #librarytat8bit on Twitter and librarytat8bit everywhere else)
Project Brand Yourself a Librarian: The Video Interview
22 years ago
JP and I were interviewed by the American Library Association’s YouTube Channel concerning the “Project Brand Yourself a Librarian” project. Rad stuff!
Thanks to the ALA for the interview! You can check out more videos from ALA Midwinter 2010 here on their YouTube channel
Project Brand Yourself a Librarian
802 years ago
We love media. We love to serve our public. We love our jobs.
We are librarians and we are proud.
I was really influenced by Andy Woodworth’s AMAZING People for a Library Themed Ben and Jerry’s campaign in my idea for Project Brand Yourself a Librarian. There is just so much excitement with that project. It really showed me how much love libraries have from their public and just how dedicated librarians are to their career.
It’s really simple. If you’re up for it, let’s all get tattoos to show our support for libraries and librarians. We are who we are. We are librarians! Let’s show the world how proud we are!
Let’s do this at the ALA Annual Conference (June 24-29). If you’ve got ideas on a tattoo parlor, leave a comment. I’ll gladly be in charge of setting up an appointments for everyone (we should all go together).
1. DOESN’T IT HURT? Honestly, it’s not that bad. I myself am very scared of needles but I don’t mind getting tattoos. The worst part is the healing. WHY? It itches…
2. BUT IT’S FOREVER! Be proud to be a librarian! Do you think you’ll be leaving this profession? See, you won’t.
3. I’VE ALWAYS WANTED ONE…and this is a great chance to finally get one! Think about it! Who else can say that they got their tattoo with a bunch of librarians?
(my tattoo, 1 week after getting it. Healing mode. ——->)