[cc-fr] Fwd: SPARC Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Sharing Information and Ideas

melanie dulong de rosnay melanie.dulong-de-rosnay at cersa.org
Thu Jun 21 17:50:57 EDT 2007


> SPARC Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Sharing
>
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> June 21, 2007
>
> Contact:
> Jennifer McLennan
> (202) 296-2296 x 121
> jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
>
> SPARC VIDEO CONTEST TO SHOWCASE STUDENT VIEWS
> ON INFORMATION SHARING
>
> Competition invites students to apply new media to ongoing  
> discussion; offers educators and librarians creative way to  
> encourage campus engagement
>
> Winner will receive $1,000, a public screening and a "Sparky Award"
>
> Washington, DC - June 21, 2007 - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing  
> and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the first SPARC  
> Discovery Awards, a contest that will recognize the best new short  
> videos illustrating the importance of sharing information and ideas.
>
> The contest, details for which are online at www.sparkyawards.org,  
> encourages new voices to join the public discussion of information  
> policy in the age of the Internet. Contestants are asked to submit  
> videos of two minutes or less that imaginatively show the benefits  
> of bringing down barriers to the free exchange of information.  
> While designed for adoption as a college or high school class  
> assignment, the SPARC Discovery Awards are open to anyone over the  
> age of 13. Submissions will be accepted beginning in mid-July and  
> must be received by December 2, 2007. Winners will be announced in  
> January 2008.
>
> The Winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a "Sparky  
> Award." Two Runners Up will each receive $500 plus a personalized  
> award certificate. At the discretion of the judges, additional  
> Special Merit Awards may be designated. All the award-winning  
> videos will be publicly screened during the January 2008 American  
> Library Association Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia.
>
> "The YouTube generation has a critical stake in how information can  
> be used and shared on the Internet," said SPARC Executive Director  
> Heather Joseph. "The SPARC Discovery Awards provide an outlet for  
> their views and an opportunity for the rest of us to understand  
> their perspectives. We hope these videos will help spark an  
> expanded, informed, and energetic discussion."
>
> SPARC expects to sponsor the Discovery Awards annually, as a means  
> of supporting public discussion of critical information issues. The  
> 2007 contest theme is "MindMashup." Mashup is an expression  
> referring to a song, video, Web site or software application that  
> combines content from more than one source.
>
> The contest takes as its inspiration a quote from George Bernard  
> Shaw: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange  
> these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if  
> you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,  
> then each of us will have two ideas."
>
> For details, please see the contest Web site at http:// 
> www.sparkyawards.org.
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and  
> its affiliated organizations, SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, are an  
> international alliance of academic and research libraries whose  
> advocacy, educational, and publisher partnership programs encourage  
> a more open system of scholarly communication utilizing the  
> Internet. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
>
> SPARC | 21 Dupont Circle NW, Ste. 800 | Washington, DC 20036 |  
> www.arl.org/sparc
>

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