[TBLC] Palm Beach County high school students dominate statewide library video contest

[Karyn Bardes]

Good morning,

 

Photographs of the three The Director's Chair contest winners are
available at www.tblc.org/TheDirectorsChairWinners. Please contact me if
you would like any of the photographs emailed to you.

 

Thank you!

 

Karyn Bardes

Communications Coordinator

Tampa Bay Library Consortium

1202 Tech Blvd., Suite 202

Tampa, FL 33619

813.622.8252 (ext. 235)

 

News Release

 

For Immediate Release

Contact: Karyn Bardes (813) 622-8252 (ext. 235)

 

Palm Beach County high school students 
dominate statewide library video contest
Ask a Librarian awards YouTube contest winners

 

On Feb. 23, Palm Beach County Library Director John Callahan and Ask a
Librarian officials awarded prizes to the winners of The Director's
Chair, a contest in which Florida high school students created
commercials to promote Ask a Librarian. Although the contest was
statewide, all three winners came from the School District of Palm Beach
County. 

 

First-place winner Joshua Stadlan is a sophomore from Weinbaum Yeshiva
High School in Boca Raton. Casandra Brescacin, a senior from Seminole
Ridge High School in Loxahatchee, won second place in the contest, and
Elyse Lautenschlager, a senior from Park Vista High School in Lake
Worth, won third prize.

 

"Ask a Librarian is an amazing service, and it was a great tool to use
for my huge English research paper," said Stadlan, whose
computer-animated video of President Obama using Ask a Librarian earned
the most votes. "I've told quite a few friends about the service." 

 

A panel of judges narrowed all the entries down to five finalists, and
the public determined the three winners by voting online. 

 

Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows patrons to chat
with a librarian for help with homework or general questions.

 

Visit www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair
<http://www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair>  to see the winners'
videos.

 

Visit www.askalibrarian.org <http://www.askalibrarian.org/>  for more
information about the Ask a Librarian service.

 

Ask a Librarian was founded by the College Center for Library Automation
(CCLA) and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC), is managed by TBLC,
and is funded as part of the Florida Electronic Library
(www.flelibrary.org) by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant.

 

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