[cla-oa] New media innovators head up the 2009 Sparky Awards video contest
- From: Adrian Ho <adrian.ho@xxxxxx>
- To: REPOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cla-oa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:40:47 -0400
Dear colleagues,
Sparky Awards is an international contest that encourages students to
create short videos to express their views on open, legal exchange of
information in the digital age. Information about it is available in
the press release below and online at: http://www.sparkyawards.org/
The University of Western Ontario is organizing a local version of it as
a follow-up event to Open Access Week.
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Adrian K. Ho
Scholarly Communication Librarian
The University of Western Ontario
(519) 661-2111 x87832 | adrian.ho@xxxxxx
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/
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September 22, 2009
Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 x 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
NEW MEDIA INNOVATORS HEAD UP THE 2009 SPARKY AWARDS
Video contest winners to be selected by leading faculty and young advocates
Washington, DC – The organizers of the popular Sparky Awards, a contest
that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information
sharing, have announced that Pat Aufderheide, Director of the Center for
Social Media and professor at American University, and Ben Moskowitz,
organizer of the Open Video Alliance and co-founder of the Berkeley
Students for Free Culture chapter, will help select the winners of the
2009 international contest. These additions to the judges’ panel reflect
how vital the open sharing of information is to both students and
faculty, and that the Sparky Awards is a unique forum to bring together
stakeholders from across campus to the discussion on access to research.
The third annual Sparky Awards invite contestants to submit videos of
two minutes or less that imaginatively portray the benefits of the open,
legal exchange of information. The contest is well suited for adoption
as a class assignment as well as an opportunity to promote library
services, including media services or the information commons, where
students can edit video, browse media, work collaboratively, and learn
about copyright and balancing features such as fair use. Colleges and
universities across North America are hosting local versions of the
Sparky Awards to get maximum benefit from the third-annual installment
of the contest. Other institutions everywhere are promoting
international entries through sparkyawards.org.
“The value of working with students on the legal reuse of online
material cannot be understated,” said Aufderheide. “Students are the
vanguard of collaborative, participatory remix culture, whose vitality
will depend upon a good understanding of copyright. Too often they fear
the law, when in fact they can and should use their rights. The Sparky
Awards are an excellent way for students to learn by doing and to find
the tools and resources available to them on campus. I’m so pleased to
participate this year.”
Moskowitz added, “By now, creating video is a basic part of information
literacy. The Sparky Awards present a fantastic opportunity for students
to share the message of openness and showcase their creative skills.
More people have access to video tools than ever before, so this year’s
entries are bound to be the best yet.”
The full 2009 judges’ panel represents the breadth of the coalition
driving the success of this contest and, with it, conversations on the
value of information sharing. Judges include:
• Nicole Allen, director of the Student PIRGs’ Make Textbooks
Affordable campaign
• Pat Aufderheide, director of the Center for Social Media and
professor at American University
• Adrian Ho, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of
Western Ontario
• Rick Johnson, SPARC’s founding Executive Director and now a
consultant and senior advisor to SPARC
• Jennifer McLennan, SPARC’s Communications Director
• Ben Moskowitz, co-organizer of the Open Video Alliance and founder
of the Berkeley Students for Free Culture chapter
• Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity Programs at the Association
of Research Libraries
• Jessica Reynoso, Associate Producer for Campus MovieFest
• Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons at the
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Entries in the international Sparky Awards competition must be received
before December 6, 2009. To be eligible, videos must be freely available
on the Internet and available for use under a Creative Commons License.
Information on regional contests in Utah, Florida, Illinois, British
Columbia, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee is available through the
contest Web site.
The international award-winning videos will be announced in conjunction
with the January 2010 American Library Association Midwinter Conference
in Boston and the Campus MovieFest 2010 Southern Regional Grand Finale.
The Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a
Sparky Award statuette, a copy of Apple Final Cut Studio, and an iPod
Nano (courtesy of Campus MovieFest). The Runner Up and People’s Choice
Award winners will each receive $500 plus a personalized award
certificate. At the discretion of the judges, additional Special Merit
Awards may be designated.
The 2009 Sparky Awards are sponsored by the Association of College and
Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, Campus
MovieFest, Penn Libraries, Students for Free Culture, and the Student
PIRGs, and organized by SPARC. For details on the contest and tips on
organizing a local competition, visit the Sparky Awards Web site at
http://www.sparkyawards.org.
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THE SPARKY AWARDS are organized and sponsored by SPARC (Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an alliance of academic
libraries and research institutions that promotes new scholarly
communication models that expand sharing of information via the
Internet. SPARC is a founder of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access,
representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and
institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research.
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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
jennifer@xxxxxxx
(202) 296-2296 x121
Fax: (202) 872-0884
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OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2009
October 19 - 23
www.openaccessweek.org
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http://www.arl.org/sparc
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