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Animating The Library’S Value: Developing An Information Literacy Cartoon, Karen Bronshteyn
Animating The Library’S Value: Developing An Information Literacy Cartoon, Karen Bronshteyn
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
An academic library was asked to create a brief, compelling, attention-grabbing marketing tool that convinces students to choose library resources over Google. After numerous discussions and a brief student survey, the format of the marketing tool was selected, an animated video, and a ballpark cost was obtained.
Year-end funds were allocated for an animated video to be dubbed “Hunt Library vs. Google”. Followed by an abbreviated vendor selection and an arduous down-payment process, collaborative work began. We provided an example video that we wished to emulate. The video showed a student in a boat fishing (narrated as “drowning”) in a …