I put some washi tape on the pens so they have a better chance of not getting stolen, also because I'm the kind of person that has washi tape in her bag at all times.....
If I get any responses I'll post it on here
Friday, April 11, 2014
National Library Week- A better question?
we are so close to library week! I wanted something interactive but didn't want to do a "how has the library changed your life" type of question. Its not something I myself would ever answer so why would I ask it of students? Then I saw this on a really good blog called self check. Its a much better idea. Make the patron talk about themselves not the library! Duh! I might also do another question later in the week. Maybe "Who is your favorite book character?" or "What book would you want in the event of a zombie outbreak?"
I put some washi tape on the pens so they have a better chance of not getting stolen, also because I'm the kind of person that has washi tape in her bag at all times.....
If I get any responses I'll post it on here
I put some washi tape on the pens so they have a better chance of not getting stolen, also because I'm the kind of person that has washi tape in her bag at all times.....
If I get any responses I'll post it on here
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
National Library Week- Buttons
Button! Buttons! Buttons! I am very lucky to have a button machine at my disposal here at my school. The library doesn't have is own but campus life has one and lets us make a button for .10 a piece. Not bad since we have under 1000 on-campus undergrads and we don't need a huge amount of stock. I made these using microsoft publisher and also using old card catalog cards. They are two inches across. The card catalog ones were actually the most difficult because I wanted the text printed, I have little kid handwriting. I figured out how to do this using clear label printing paper we had in stock. It worked perfectly and came out on a material kind of like clear tape but went through the printer like a dream. Again you can see my use of lots of fun fonts and tagul to make my word cloud hearts. I love these, the library staff seems to love them and next week I'll find out how the students like them. The nice thing about being so small scale is if they love them and they run out I can go to the building next door and make more!
National Library Week- Signage
Here are some of the signs I created for library week. My goal was to have a new one each day. I used tagul.com to create the word cloud. I really like that site since it lets me pick different shapes and makes it easy to save the image.
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I wanted to do a spotlight of the day that was visually interesting. I don't have any graphic design experience so I was kind of winging it. I thought a flowchart might be fun so I created this for my book spotlight. Its not awesome looking but I think its a fun idea. I got the graphics from microsoft publisher, I like that their graphics don't have a background. I don't know the technical term for that, might want to make it a mission to figure that out!
This is actually the first sign I made. I'm not huge on the color scheme but I was following the scheme of the ALA national library week banner. This was the first time I used the eyedropper tool to get the right colors, it made life easier and I'm glad I figured it out. Again the computer is a microsoft publisher clipart. On that note did you know if you choose insert online picture in publisher it will look for creative commons pictures for you? Now you do!
This sign took the longest but that's because I was going crazy on Pixlr Express. It so fun and easy, if you have not used it before go do that now! I also did some of my first virtual collaboration on this one. Since I'm used to being in a larger library where I could ask multiple people opinions I felt I little lost, but then I remembered duh the internet! I had a lot of help from a former co-worker and classmate, Keeley, to get this looking like it did. Thanks Keeley!
I've still got a few more signs to make and will post them when I'm finished!
I wanted to do a spotlight of the day that was visually interesting. I don't have any graphic design experience so I was kind of winging it. I thought a flowchart might be fun so I created this for my book spotlight. Its not awesome looking but I think its a fun idea. I got the graphics from microsoft publisher, I like that their graphics don't have a background. I don't know the technical term for that, might want to make it a mission to figure that out!
This is actually the first sign I made. I'm not huge on the color scheme but I was following the scheme of the ALA national library week banner. This was the first time I used the eyedropper tool to get the right colors, it made life easier and I'm glad I figured it out. Again the computer is a microsoft publisher clipart. On that note did you know if you choose insert online picture in publisher it will look for creative commons pictures for you? Now you do!
This sign took the longest but that's because I was going crazy on Pixlr Express. It so fun and easy, if you have not used it before go do that now! I also did some of my first virtual collaboration on this one. Since I'm used to being in a larger library where I could ask multiple people opinions I felt I little lost, but then I remembered duh the internet! I had a lot of help from a former co-worker and classmate, Keeley, to get this looking like it did. Thanks Keeley!
This last poster I created to advertise our easter egg hunt. I hated all the fonts in publisher and after playing on pixlr I wanted something more fun. So I learned to use fontspace! Its super easy and I downloaded a ton of fun fonts including one called permanent marker and one called scribblebox
I've still got a few more signs to make and will post them when I'm finished!
National Library Week!- Easter Egg Hunt
National Library week is April 12-April 19 for 2014. I wanted to do something but I'm a newbie here and didn't want to ask for lots of money so here are some projects I created on a limited budget!
Project: Easter Egg Hunt
supplies: Plastic Eggs, Candy, card catalog card, clear printer stickers
Description: So this was probably the most expensive of the projects. One of the other librarians suggested an easter egg hunt at a staff meeting, and since I was already thinking about library week and they coincide I ran with it! Staff members were awesomely helpful with this! One of them spent a good deal of time finding me lots and lots of quotes about libraries, books and reading. I printed those out and stuffed them in the eggs along with some candy (that our awesome head of the library bought). Again I wanted to create some prizes that cost very little so I made some library fine fee waivers! Its basically free since we don't depend on late fee revenue. I wanted students to give back the eggs if they didn't want them so we could use them again, I made a cute sign for returning the eggs out of a card catalog card and some clear printer stickers. I love clear printer stickers!!!
Project: Easter Egg Hunt
supplies: Plastic Eggs, Candy, card catalog card, clear printer stickers
Description: So this was probably the most expensive of the projects. One of the other librarians suggested an easter egg hunt at a staff meeting, and since I was already thinking about library week and they coincide I ran with it! Staff members were awesomely helpful with this! One of them spent a good deal of time finding me lots and lots of quotes about libraries, books and reading. I printed those out and stuffed them in the eggs along with some candy (that our awesome head of the library bought). Again I wanted to create some prizes that cost very little so I made some library fine fee waivers! Its basically free since we don't depend on late fee revenue. I wanted students to give back the eggs if they didn't want them so we could use them again, I made a cute sign for returning the eggs out of a card catalog card and some clear printer stickers. I love clear printer stickers!!!
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