We’re collecting images of libraries in the West Midlands, from Birmingham to Bloxwich and from Warwick to Worcester. Whatever kind of library you work in – we want to see it, inside or out! Whether it’s public or academic, legal or medical, old or new. If you’re proud of where you work, why not tell the rest of the region?
Simply photograph your library and add your photo* to the group pool on the ‘CILIP West Midlands Library Photo Competition’ group page. It’s that easy! Anyone can join our group, you don’t need to be a member of CILIP, but you will need to have a Flickr account.
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 like to share with others. We are accepting more than one photo per authority or organisation (in fact the more merrier).
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 who submits the best image to our group pool will have it reproduced in Library + Information Gazette. The winning shot should be artistic, creative and imaginative, showing off your library in a 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.
Members have until Friday 5 June to upload their images.
For more information please contact: cilipwm@me.com
* By adding your photo on Flickr you are accepting that consent has been given by any person(s) pictured.