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Make Your Own (legit) READ Poster & Win $100

posted by Blake on 02:15 PM April 6th, 2006
from the Legit dept. Maybe you caught This Post from a couple weeks ago on a Flickr Pool Of Unofficial READ Posters. Mary Mackay from over at the ALA did, and she sent in this:

Making READ posters is really popular, and people come up with some great ideas. It sounds as though not everyone has discovered the two READ CDs that are published by ALA Graphics. The CDs provide all thetools you need to create the posters--and also make you legit since the CDs include permission to use the trademarked concept. For the creative types who want to find out more, here's the link.

And a bonus . . . For an easy library or school project, simply send in any READ poster you have created using the READ CD 2 and you could win a $100 gift certificate from ALA Graphics and be featured in American Libraries magazine. Your READ poster can feature patrons, staff, students, teachers, or (of course) yourself. Submissions are due by May31, 2006. For more information, please visit This Page @ The ALA Store.

The CD contains several pre-designed READ posters and bookmarks as well as a selection of backgrounds and type styles so you can create your own. It ain't cheap, but it is the way to create legit posters. Trackbacks:

Make you own READ poster ash966 writes "I was unable to get to PLA to be photographed in my own READ poster, but I made my own in Photoshop Elements.

If anyone else has an amusing READ poster parody, please submit it to my Flickr pool.
I'm sure many people could do better than my humble effort. If I get enough, I'll have a contest. The winner gets a free t-shirt and poster of their work from Cafepress!" Friday Updates For April 7th It's hard to believe it's Friday again, yet here we are...Transgendered Veteran's Suit Against Library of Congress Can Proceed raised a bit of a ruckus, and some really nasty comments.US News & World Report LIS rankings are out again this year. How did your school do? Library Worker Who Criticized Admin Wins Grievance touched off a little discussion on the value of unions. You probably won't be surprised by the comments.

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In the journals, slashgirl reached out for help with her portfolio, ShockM pointed to an interesting post on the new OPAC at a public library, and GregS* pointed to his library's TV broadcast. Library Marketing: Yo, Read Y'all! 7 comments Adri writes "Oklahoma's literacy campaign Read Y'all has gotten AP headlines for its latest poster girl Carrie Underwood. Mind you plenty of folks are complaining about the use of Y'all in the campaign..." Well it beats the "Don't Read" campaign. But why do all these contrived efforts to be folksy remind me of that Appalachian State University video? This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Make Your Own (legit) READ Poster & Win $100 | Log in/Create an Account | Top | 3 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

legitimacy for only $140? how gracious.
(Score:4, Insightful) by Jessamyn (13) on Thursday April 06, @02:57PM (#24682)
( http://www.librarian.net/ ) I guess I'm happy staying illegitimate then.

I might mention that American Libraries (itself an arm of the ALA... I'm not sure how that works) reproduced a copy of one of my images in their newsletter AL Direct without proper attribution and a dubious reading of the non-commercial nature of the Creative Commons license. However, I'm keeping my mouth closed because 1) I like ALA and 2) I think it's for the overall good of the profession that these images are shared and people get excited about making their own READ posters. Then again if I recall correctly ALA went after Audible.com for their Don't Read posters, so maybe this is just a touchy subject for them.
Re:legitimacy for only $140? how gracious.
(Score:2, Insightful) by laura (4510) on Thursday April 06, @04:23PM (#24684)
( http://www.newrambler.net/ ) Ditto. One would think that being a member of the organization would be enough to entitle one to its slogans. I understand that trademark law is rather more complicated than that. I find it hard to justify spending money on something I can make for myself for free, even if it is illegitimate. And I'd like to think that ALA would be happy to see the creativity and resourcefulness of its members--apparently they were happy enough to include the Flickr pool in AL Direct. [ Parent ]
Pretty poor ROI.
(Score:4, Informative) by Karl (16) on Thursday April 06, @03:15PM (#24683)
( http://www.lisnews.com/search.pl?op=stories&author=16 | Last Journal: Monday May 10, @04:35PM ) What Blake fails to mention is that the READ CD costs $134 (more if you're not an ALA member). It seems to me that a $100 prize is a pretty cheap way for ALA to get virtually free graphic design work done. --
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legitimacy for only $140? how gracious.

Re:legitimacy for only $140? how gracious.

Pretty poor ROI.