CILIP West Midlands are calling on all budding photographers in the region as we embark on an exciting digital photography project using the photo management and sharing application Flickr (www.flickr.com). Simply photograph your library and upload your photo to the Group Pool on the 'CILIP West Midlands Library Photo Competition' group page. It's that easy!
Maybe your library building itself is architecturally impressive, or perhaps you have taken some shots of an event, activity or initiative you have run, that you would really like to share with others.
We are accepting more than one photo per authority or organisation (in fact the more merrier). You don't have to live or work in the West Midlands, neither do you have to be a CILIP member. You will however have to have a Flickr account and your photo must be of a library within our boundaries. With 301 static public libraries in the West Midlands alone, not to mention all the school, FE/HE, health and legal libraries, we could easily reach half a ton of images.
As Flickr now allows the adding of "geo-tags" or location metadata to images directly on the website, it means that in a few months time we should have a map populated with all kinds of libraries; large and small, old or new, public or private.
Not only will you be helping to create a digital collage to showcase the diversity of our region's libraries, but the library or individual that submits the best image to our Group Pool will have it reproduced in CILIP's Library + Information Gazette later this year. The winning shot will need to be artistic, creative and imaginative, showing off your library in a whole new light. So get snapping and put your library on the map!
With other ideas beginning to stem from this already, such as a CILIP West Midlands Calendar for 2010, the project has the potential to become a cross sectoral promotional tool to help project a positive image of libraries, and particularly those in the West Midlands.
The closing date is: Friday 5 June 2009
You can visit our group page on Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/cilipwmlibphotocomp
David Viner
Assistant Librarian
Solihull Central Library
Solihull
B91 3RG
T: 0121 704 8534
F: 0121 704 6907
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W: http://www.solihull.gov.uk/libraries
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