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2009 Journalism Library Video Contest

What?

A short video on the Journalism Library: it's technology, collections or why you like the Journalism Library.

What's in it for me?

You could win $100 and have your video posted on the Journalism Library's web site.

Contest Rules

All contestants must be currently enrolled MU students.

  • Contestants agree to allow their video(s) to be shown by the MU Libraries for promotional and educational purposes.
  • Contestants may submit multiple entries.
  • Videos must be less than 5 minutes long, including credits.
  • Videos must be free of strong languge and explicit sexual content.
  • Video must be the creation of contestants and not infringe on the copyright of a third party.
  • If you plan to film in a library, please check in at the front dek with an overview of what you plan to do in the library. PLEASE respect the privacy of others in the library and don't film them without asking for permission first.
  • Videos must be submitted as a video data file (.wmv, .mov or .avi format).
  • Each video must be submitted on a CD-R, DVD-R, or flash drive along with a submission form, to the circulation desk at the journalism library.
  • If you choose to put your submission on a flash drive, please put it in an envelope available at the front desk. Included your name and email on the envelope so it can easily be returned to you.
  • The winner in each category will receive $100.
  • Winners will be notified within one week of the due date.

Categories

Technology

The Journalism Library has the following items available for check-out: wireless headphones (for audio while watching TV); Kindle with subscriptions to The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle, Financial Times, and MIT's Technology Review; iPod Touches; digital video and "still" cameras; digital voice recorder; and 20 MacBook laptops. There are also 2 color scanners; B/W printer and copier and a color printer that can print both 8 1/2" X 11" and 11" X 17" sized documents.

Collections

  • Jack and Dorothy Field Collection - photojournalism, travel, nature
  • Weinberg Collection fiction collection featuring journalists as main characters
  • Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Collection books from POYi contest entries
  • Newspapers - Access to thousands of digital and print newspapers

What do you like about the Journalism Library?

Do you have a favorite item to check out or nook to study and relax in? Do you do your best studying in the library? Do you meet friends at the library? Tell us anything and everything you love about the Journalism Library!

 

 
Journalism Library Video Contest Poster

Don't have equipment?

Check out a video camera from the Journalism Library

The Journalism Library also has the iLife Suite and Creative Suite 4 on all of our computers.

Computing Sites across the MU campus also have iLife Suite and Creative Suite software on their computers.

Deadline for Submission is Sept. 25, 2009

Click on this submission form, print it and bring it to the Journalism Library Check-in/Check-out Desk along with your video. Submisson forms are also available at the desk.

Have more questions?

Call us at: 573 882-7502 or

email us at: jlib@missouri.edu

Talk to us in person at: The Frank Lee Martin Memorial Library102 Reynolds Journalism Institute

 

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