Photos needed!
This year, National Library Week (NLW) is April 10–16. As part of the Public Relations and Marketing (PRaM) social media campaign, we plan to gather images of our student workers at all library locations to post on @psulibs social media platforms and on our plasma screens.

We need your help! Please submit photos of student workers at your campus location — with the file name including your campus, individual(s) in the photo, left to right, and position/title held —  to this Box folder. (e.g.: “Behrend_Jane_Smith_ref_desk_asst.jpg”) If a photo includes multiple people, please submit a photo caption via Word document following the same file naming convention to the folder. (Please keep in mind that photos will be edited by our team and if selected for Instagram will run small and square.)

We hope to get a University-wide representation of our employees! (At University Park, PRaM social media intern Sadie Caccimelio will be available to take photos, but submissions also are welcome.) If you have any questions, please email Jill Shockey, jss140 (at) psu.edu.

#Librariestransform contest
The theme for NLW 2016 is “Libraries Transform,” highlighting the transformative nature of libraries in the community. As part of our celebrations, PRaM has planned a social media contest for Penn State students from Monday, April 11, through Thursday, April 14. We  are posing the question, “How has Penn State Libraries transformed your student experience?” To enter the contest, we are asking students to post short video clips of their answers to Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. (They will need to use the following hashtags: #librariestransform and #psulibs. To run on Instagram, they must be less than 12 seconds long, so we are encouraging responses of 1-2 sentences.) We are seeking creativity rather than technological prowess! The most creative answer will receive a $100 Penn State Bookstore gift card.

#AskaLibrarian social media campaign kickoff
During NLW 2016, we also will be launching a new campaign on Instagram and Facebook that aims to put a friendly face on our library reference services (both virtual and in person), and promote ways in which we can help students succeed. More information on this campaign (and ways in which you can help) will come soon.