A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

As many of you know, I am a career switcher.  To determine if I wanted to move careers entirely, I shadowed our elementary librarian for a day.  One of the things that resonated with me during that day is that librarians spend a good deal of time doing research or teaching students how to research.  I liked the image below because it is clearly a woman on the hunt online!  I like to infuse humor, so using this image and then talking about other uses for the internet hopefully would garner some amusement.



StockSnap (2017). laptop-computer-modern-technology. [photograph] Pixabay. Retrieved from  https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/08/07/04/06/laptop-2599645__340.jpg CC Zero

I also imagine that there will be times as a librarian we'll be setting up features around specific books in the library (banners, posters, et al).  So, in thinking about promoting specific authors, I searched for some of my favorite books to look for photos that might make a good display.  I really liked this photo with not only the books but with items from the books represented in the theme.


Natasha G (2014). harry-potter. [photograph] Pixabay.  Retrieved from https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/08/14/16/32/harry-potter-418108__340.jpg CC Zero

I was intrigued by Big Huge Labs ability to create the color palatte from  your photo, much like the book discussed, but I couldn't figure out how to take an IMAGE of the color palette.  I was hoping to upload my picture and the corresponding palette that Big Huge Labs created.  So, in lieu of that, I created a motivational poster from the second image, encouraging reading.

Natasha G (2014). harry-potter. [photograph] Pixabay.  Retrieved from https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/08/14/16/32/harry-potter-418108__340.jpg CC Zero. Modified using Big Huge Labs.