Perkins Library Awesomeness

Hastings College Perkins Library held a video contest in honor of National Library Week 2009. In keeping with the national theme “Worlds connect at your library,” students, faculty and staff were asked to submit videos that illustrated how they use Perkins Library to connect to their worlds. The winner, “I’m Yours Perkins” by Stacie Sawyer and Kelsey Knehans, is a love song, which spoofs Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” The song/video pays tribute to the many ways Perkins Library allows its patrons to connect to the world, including keeping up on Brangelina and finding out who Rick Astley is. The winning video is posted below. Other entries, all of which may be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/user/HCPerkinsLibrary were:

• “The Great Escape” by Stephen Cannon, Michael Fahrenbruch and Mike Merryman (Team Awesome). A student is accidentally trapped in the library and must find a way to connect to the world or lose his mind. Does he succeed? You have to watch it to find out.
• “38 Seconds to Connect” by Sara Tall and Anna Mullen (with assist by Leah Olson). An illustration, in thirty-eight seconds, of the myriad ways in which the world can be accessed via Perkins Library. Do you know them all?
• “Terror at Perkins Library” by Emily Spearman, Kellie Bate and Nick Henline. Pancrazyo, a crazed plumber, terrorizes students at Perkins Library. Happy ending? Watch and see.

In other exciting news, Perkins Library is proud to have been named 1st Runner up in Wiley Publishing Company’s “For Dummies” Library Display contest. Hastings College’s motto “Pursue Your Passion” was integrated into our display, which featured photos of students, faculty and staff donning the Dummy’s googly eyes and oversized pointy finger. To view photos of their award-winning display, go to http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70979&id=589583541&l=f5e08c54db. For photos of all entries, go to http://s543.photobucket.com/albums/gg468/DummiesLibraryContest09/ (And please note that it’s hard to beat a guy dressed as a bee! Paulding County Carnegie Library, we salute you and bow down to your rightful place as first place winner!) Perkins Library will receive 40 For Dummies books of our choice; a trophy; a pizza party for our staff; and a prize box filled with Dummies items. Special thanks to sophomores Anna Mullen and Sara Tall, chief masterminds of the display, with help from staff and library assistants and also to the Art Department for the loan of its pedestals.