Designing videos can be a huge part of a librarian's workload, and UBC iSchool certainly prepares us for that.
One of the individual assignments for the Services for Children course (LIBR 527) was to create a book trailer, and the group assignment for Instructional Role of the Librarian course (LIBR 535) was to design a tutorial video. Given that the videos I designed were either too short or developed with a team, I thought that designing a video for my co-op's first term capstone assignment would be a nice challenge.
Science Literacy Week 2020 theme was Ocean and all UBC Library branches had Ocean related book displays. I selected books for the Biomedical Branch and designed a book display for the Memorial Room, a beautiful, cozy room at Woodward Library. It was the first time I curated a book display, and, although it seemed like a not-so-stressful experience, there's a lot to take under consideration. I decided to create my video on that book display, and it was a great learning experience: I designed a script, chose pictures, a song, recorded my voice, edited the video and uploaded it to YouTube.
Science Literacy Week had lots of students engaged and participating in the activities proposed by the library: a successful event.
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