With National Library Week right around the cor­ner, AL Focus will be releas­ing a series of videos to help pro­mote it this year. Amer­i­can Libraries’ edi­tor Dan Kraus based them on some of the sta­tis­tics from ALA’s Quotable Facts about America’s Libraries brochure. Watch for the rest of them to appear on Focus dur­ing the next few weeks.

National Library Week: Ref­er­ence Desk

You’re wel­come to use the intro to cre­ate your own pro­mo­tional videos for NLW. To grab it, fol­low these instructions:

• Go to alfocus.blip.tv and click on the Episode Archive.
• Find the video you want and click on it, in this case the NLW Intro­duc­tion.
• Scroll down a lit­tle and click on the “Files and Links” area on the right-hand side to get a link to save it to your com­puter. For this one, it’s http://blip.tv/file/761553?filename=Alfocus-NationalLibraryWeekIntroduction834.mov.
• If you do end up using it, please leave a com­ment on the video on AL Focus so that we can high­light your work. We may end up doing some­thing with the best ones.