Gettin’ GiFFy with It2015 NYLA Annual Conference

Lake Placid, NYhttp://bit.ly/NYLAgifs

Gif: “Graphics Interchange Format”What is a gif?

What do people use them for?

Why are gifs cool?

what does this have to with libraries?Gifs are information.

Gifs are communication.

Gifs are their own kind of literacy.

Gifs let you remix ideas and culture.

Gifs are also cool!

Telling a Story “If you've seen any coverage of North Dakota's oil boom, you've seen the images — oil rigs, truck traffic, ‘man camps,’ miles of temporary housing.

But there is something about this place that just can't be captured by a still photograph. It's a feeling you get when you cruise down an endless highway under a vast, big sky — until suddenly: BOOM. You're wedged between semi-trucks dwarfing what was once a quiet farm town.”

Ken Barcus, http://n.pr/1hCcVj7

storytelling & digital literacy & Teens Oh my!“Today we

shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but

not produce media.”

Henry Jenkinshenryjenkins.org/2006/07/

behind_the_scenes_at_pop_studi_1.html

The smithsonian librarieshttp://smithsonianlibraries.tumblr.com/

The gottesman Librariesarchivalrevival.pressible.org

We made this one!

New york public libraryhttp://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/gif/1533

DC Public libraryhttp://dclibrary.org/node/44835

Digital public library of americaGIF it Up Contest - Users compete to create the best gifs using public domain materials

http://dp.la/info/gif-it-up/

Austin public libraryhttp://library.austintexas.gov/blog-entry/play-guess-gif-pt-2-classic-romantic-comedies-313450

Guess the romantic comedy from the gif - answers have links to the films in their catalog!

University of Missouri Librarieshttp://muspeccoll.tumblr.com/

Special Collections and University Archives augment their collections with gifs

Carleton University Library in Ottawa, Canadahttp://arccarleton.tumblr.com/

Brown University Library http://library.brown.edu/dps/curio/

sharing your

collections

Promoting & Sharing your collections

copyrightWhat do we know?

Is it transformative?

What can be done?

Gif Resources

➔Imgflip

➔GIPHY

➔imgur

➔Gif Brewery ($)

➔Gifx

➔Instagram

◆ also Boomerang

➔Vine

➔GIMP tutorial

➔Photoshop ($$$)

questions / discussion

Laura Costello, Dana Haugh, Meredith Powers