Ask a Librarian launches YouTube contest for Florida High School Students

 

 We are really excited to announce the kickoff of The Director’s Chair, Ask a Librarian’s YouTube contest. And we need your help to get the word out! The Director’s Chair allows students to make their directorial debuts by creating the next Ask a Librarian commercial. We are asking

Florida high school students to create a 30-second video and upload it to YouTube. A panel of judges will determine the top five finalists, and then the public will vote for the best video from those five. The winners receive AWESOME prizes.

 Flyers to share with your teens are available to download as a JPG (here) or as a PDF (here). Or, if you’d like us to mail copies to you, just let me know. The Director’s Chair official logo is available for download here.  In order for The Director’s Chair to be a success, we need you! Please let teens in your community know about the contest. Talk to your school connections, post flyers in your libraries, post the contest logo and link to the contest’s website from your website, post it on your MySpace, FaceBook and blog pages, and spread the word in any other way you can think of!  Next week, Ask a Librarian staff will distribute a press release and start officially promoting the contest throughout the state. But YOU are the biggest voice we have. This is a great chance to get our students involved in Ask a Librarian, and we hope you’re as excited by the contest as we are. Visit www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair for more information, including prizes, official rules, YouTube submission info and release forms.
If you have questions, please let me know!