Katie at Chuukaku.com » marketing http://www.chuukaku.com/blog the website of Katie Fraser a librarian with a PhD in Learning Sciences Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:33:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Latest library tasks: displays http://www.chuukaku.com/blog/2008/02/lastest-library-tasks-displays.html http://www.chuukaku.com/blog/2008/02/lastest-library-tasks-displays.html#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:39:00 +0000 Katie http://www.chuukaku.com/wordpress/?p=10 So, how did I get kicked out of university? Not in real life, thankfully. Library Regulation 11.40 in the Albert Sloman is the one that says “the marking and defacing of books is strictly forbidden” and my co-trainee and I were tasked with producing a display to advertise to library users what a bad idea it is to deface books.

To do this, we produced two comic strips, one detailing the fantastic things that might happen if you were a good library user, and another detailing the karmic troubles befalling a bad library user. The picture on the right, with my quality acting, shows the end of the ‘bad’ strip, and I’ve included a shrunken version of the whole ‘bad’ strip below (low fidelity to protect the innocent co-workers bullied into participating). I found a tutorial online for making speech / thought bubbles at http://tinyurl.com/y466s7 which is well worth a look if you want to try something similar using the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Programme) – it’s an open source programme with similar functionality to Photoshop.

Our colleagues helped out with acting and photography, and then I spent probably-too-long putting together the comic strip last Friday afternoon. We’re pretty proud with the results. I’ve not made a display in quite some time, although I did take a course during my PhD on putting together poster presentations. The hardest bit, I think, was the layout of the display board itself to complement the comic format with other information – we ended up including a summary of what the comic strips showed, and some copies of defaced books. Also – a tip for anyone making a defacing books poster – we had to laminate the comic. Someone with postmodern mischief in mind defaced my face in the ‘good’ comic.

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