Bring your library to life with a story.
The New Jersey State Library is partnering with the New Jersey Library Association to launch a statewide campaign for libraries to collect stories and create multimedia pieces that will portray libraries as transformative and librarians as people in the community who are passionate and involved in the community and making a difference.
Libraries will engage communities, customers, businesses and students in telling authentic stories about their library experiences and will then translate them into moving multimedia stories of inspiration. We will share these stories through traditional and new media outlets to create a powerful word of mouth initiative.
The first segment of the campaign will be a statewide contest to encourage libraries to gather stories from their users and create a compelling digital story about the library experience. It will begin October, 2008 and end June 1, 2009.
Joining the contest.
Please note that while we strongly encourage you to involve your staff to participate in the making of the digital story, you are more than welcome to tap into the talents of your community members as well.
Questions? Contact Nancy Dowd ndowd@njstatelib.org
Rules
1. You must represent a New Jersey library to enter the contest and complete a registration form, found here.
2. The person who is entering the contest must fill out a Director’s Release form, found Director’s Release Form
3. Anybody who appears in the video (including the Director) must fill out a Talent Release form, found here If an actor is under 18, the forms must be signed by a parent or legal guardian.
4. Videos must be no longer than 3 minutes.
Deadlines:
The deadline to submit your story is midnight, June 1, 2009.
Download to YouTube, fill out the Director’s Release Form then mail/email the form and URL to Nancy Dowd.
Email: ndowd@njstatelib.org
Fax: 609-278-2652
Address: The New Jersey State Library, PO Box 520, Trenton, Nj 08625-0520, Att: Nancy Dowd
If you have any questions please call Nancy Dowd 609-278-2640 x 122.
A panel of independent judges will choose the winning videos based on the following criteria:
Creativity (10 points)
Overall appeal (10 points)
Compelling story (30 points)
The WOW factor (20 points)
Depiction of library as transformative force (30 points)
Prizes
FIRST PRIZE
The library with the best story will receive a day with StoryCorps.
The library submitting the best story will win a door-to-door session from StoryCorps. A team of professional sound technicians will create recordings of interviews of community members selected by the library. In addition, one of the stories recorded that day will be selected and professionally edited into a two to three minute audio soundtrack such as those heard on NPR radio. This prize has been donated by Novelist.
Second Prize: High Definition Handycam® Camcorder HDR-TG1
Third Prize: The Flip Mino
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