Marbled Paper Endsheets

My daughter is really the expert at making photos beautiful, but I'm always happy to try out things to make sharing images easy and fun. I tried two of these apps, and here are my results. #rudai23 #thing PhotoFunia This was really easy and had some fun choices. I can see using it for our libraries, for some announcements and advertising. My daughter's boyfriend is a Minneapolis rapper, so I thought this was cool: My daughter is an actress, and I used a photo of her at the Cannes Film Festival for the big screen: My other daughter is flying out to see a friend in NYC, so... The only downside to using PhotoFunia that I can see is that one might tire of the options. Quik Next, I knew I had a couple sets of recent photos that would be good to try in video form, so I tried out Quik. Here is my sisters and mom when we went to tour the really cool Art Barn at St. Olaf College:   My daughter likes to be in control of her pets. They are always so adorable toge...

I love image banks. I love images. I think most people do, and it shows in social media. How many people prefer reading a paragraph post on facebook to looking at an image? I used flickr for this thing and looked at photos of one of many obsessions: library card catalogs. I haven't used flickr for quite some time, so it was fun to dig around in there again. I recently heard a talk at a library conference called Visual Literacy: From Fake News to Fair Use, by Emily Barney, librarian at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Part of her job is to find original sources of images for faculty, and she talked about how she does that, using reverse image searches. I have been trying out her tactics, and it's been interesting to see how people can distort an image for their own use.

I am going to my first national library conference (PLA), and I'm very excited. My current position, Information Services Librarian in a consortium, finds me actually working with vendors, which means I will meet a few people in person with whom I have been chatting by email. I am hoping to bring back a few tips on staff training and community involvement, as well as some STE(A)M and program ideas  for our region. I am excited to visit Philadelphia for the first time, and plan on doing a little sight seeing. I am even signed up to throw axes as a fund raising for Every Library. Trying to decide which t-shirt to accompany my buffalo plaid, for representing Minnesota: