Logo Contest Entry – Emily Lloyd

Emily creates the witty and insightful Shelf Check strip if you don’t read it regularly you should! Emily writes

No illustrations, because I imagine the icons and shapes transliteracies take (touchscreen, digital video, book, etc) will change, and quickly, but the basic concept, rendered in text, will remain.

Logo Contest Entry – Ruth

Ruth, who tweets at UtopianLibrary, created these logos Ruth writes

i worked with “transliteracy” as defined here on L&T, the macbook dictionary definition of “logo,” and the following guidelines to come up with this logo. the guidelines are from my own experience. a few are lessons i learned from my father when i entered a safety poster contest in 5th grade. those lessons stuck.

- a logo should speak its message without a whole lot of detail or explanation
- a logo should withstand time, at least until someone decides the image needs an overhaul
- logo art should be camera ready and easily/cleanly reproducible in various formats and sizes (print, digital, t-shirt, button, sidewalk chalk, skywriting)
- a logo’s color should be user’s choice and flexible

and for this specific logo…

-libraries have the tools and potential to reach globally and touch locally
-there are no symbols for the usable platforms, tools, or media that haven’t been discovered yet

and that’s pretty much it.

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Logo Contest Entry – Sara Mooney

Sara Mooney is a technology geek and entertainment / information professional, residing in Las Vegas, NV.  Currently, she works as a Technical Documentalist (a combination of knowledge management / archivist / librarian / researcher) for Cirque du Soleil’s Viva ELVIS at the Aria Resort and Casino. (How awesome is that?)

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Why Transliteracy? An Introduction for Librarians

This week I had the honor of being Michael Sauers guest on Nebraska Library Commission’s NCompass Live Tech Talk.  The session was recorded and you can listen and watch below.

You can see just the slideshow below

Resources mentioned during the post :

• Transliteracy as a Blueberry Smoothie
• Escaping the Echo Chamber – presentation
• Defining Transliteracy for Librarians
• FCC’s Broadband Action Agenda Fails to Address Training and Education
• Empowering Library Users to Work with Digital Media
• Librarians Play a Vital Role in 21st Century Literacies
• Transliterate Divide – Working Definition
• Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Warns of “Second Class Citizens” in the Digital Age
• Libraries Need to Focus on Transliteracy
• Mobile Phones Are Not The Key to Bridging the Digital Divide
• Yes You Do Have The Time to Learn That New Fangled Internet, Just Put Down The Remote

Logo Contest Entry – Justin Hoenke

Among many other things, Justin Hoenke is a teen librarian and contributor to 8 Bit Library

Justin writes

I just saw your contest and thought “you know what, I love graphic design and the killer job most people do with it. But I can’t do that. All I can create are little cartoons.”

So my thinking behind this was just to be Justin and try something that I can do.