Instagram

By Denise Borck

Thanks again to Denise for sharing another stunning display.

Her comments below explain the display. 

They are taken from her Blog, which is well worth a visit: LIFE IN THE LIBRARY

'With school back in full swing, it was time to change our back to school bulletin board with something more current. With Instagram favored by teens over Facebook and Twitter as their most important social networking tool, it was the perfect choice for our theme. Visiting classrooms around the school allowed me to take pictures of students and faculty going about the daily life of school here at WJMS. I created wjmsknights as our faux Instagram account and added applicable hashtags to go with the images. Inserting each image into an Instagram template found online, made them look much more authentic. I also included some infographics found online which show how powerful Instagram can be as a tool for social networking. Since the kids have seen me around the building taking pictures, they have been drawn to the new board to see which images I posted. I plan to keep this board up through the spring while changing out the pictures of WJMS events throughout the year'.

Photographic Competition

By Barbara Plumb

The library at Trinity Catholic College, Lismore, are running another photo competition. This year the theme is 'Focus on action'. Thanks for sharing this idea Barbara, I like the way that you are actively encouraging the arts in the library and the way it will naturally involve the engagement of a different set of students. At the moment I am gathering information about libraries as 'maker-spaces' and this competition would fit into that idea well.