F09 - Capturing Vancouver: Accessible video storytelling in public libraries.
Session Description
The voice of every city is that of its citizens. In order to “capture” that voice, every person needs to be given the opportunity to share their story in an engaging low-barrier way. There are three major ways that libraries can support this learning: equipment, skills, and platform.
The Inspiration Lab at Vancouver Public Library (VPL) has recently completed the Capturing Vancouver citizen journalism project that taught community members the theory behind citizen journalism, put low-cost recording equipment into their hands, and provided the editing software and instructions to edit their very own video stories of the city. VPL is also able to provide hosting for the videos created during this project on the existing This Vancouver website, raising the voices of patrons’ stories and sharing them widely on an accessible, public, and secure website.
Hear about the lessons learned during this large scale program, and leave the presentation with a toolkit to create a version of a reduced-barrier video storytelling workshop that works for your community. The toolkit supports a variety of frameworks of video storytelling, not just journalism, and gives suggestions for programs that range from simple to complex. The toolkit includes information on the instruction of the course and suggestions for selecting low-barrier equipment.
Speakers
Meaghan Gibeaux, VPL
Biography
Meaghan is a recent graduate of the MLIS program at SLAIS - UBC (2018), where she also completed her MA in Children's Literature (2017), for which she wrote a thesis on the work of author/illustrator Shaun Tan. She is very happy to be the librarian on the Digital Creation team in the Programming and Learning Dept at VPL, who oversee the awesome Inspiration Lab, a hub for digital creation.
Erin Ziegenfuss, Vancouver Public Library
Biography
Erin Ziegenfuss is an assistant manager in Programming and Learning at Vancouver Public Library where she oversees the day-to-day awesome of VPL’s award-winning digital media creation space, the Inspiration Lab. She has been a librarian with VPL since 2013 and has been involved with the Inspiration Lab since the initial training of staff for its opening in 2015. Listening to podcasts is her vice and video production is her next new obsession. Her passion is reassuring everyone she meets about their technology learning curves.
Kerri Donaldson, VPL
Biography
Kerri has a degree in literary studies and has worked for the Vancouver Public Library for 5 years, first as a Library Assistant in Circulation then as a full time Lab Technician in the Inspiration Lab (a digital creation space with recording studios). In her time with the Lab, she has been fortunate enough to create several new courses including a 2-part series on how to record and edit your podcast using REAPER. She recently received the VPL Brand Champion award as part of the Social Media Working Group.
Roberto Ramirez, Vancouver Public Library
Biography
Roberto graduated in Communications at Tec de Monterrey in Guadalajara, Mexico. After a short span in photography and reporting for local media and communication departments, Roberto quickly realized that modern advances in digital technology meant that people have the potential to become the medium and the message. After moving to Vancouver from Guadalajara, his love for books led him to find a job at the Vancouver Public Library. He currently works there in the Inspiration Lab as a Lab Technician, where he helps educate the public on how to use technology to create their own media content.