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Choose from four templates, click the button to upload a picture from your computer, add some optional text, and it's ready to download & save!

This would be a fun way to post a profile picture on a social network or your blog.

Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian) asks that if you post your poster to Flickr, be sure to add it to the Read posters pool.

[via The Shifted Librarian]

Watch the 5 winners of the 2008 InfoTubey Awards at www.infotubey.com.

And don't forget to tell your patrons they can create an original video that depicts the AskAway chat service to enter the "I Love AskAway" YouTube video contest; details & entry form are at http://askaway.pbwiki.com/YouTube+Contest+Entry+Page.

Here's my favorite: "Now Your Library is Open Late Night, Too!"

Celebrate National Library Week April 13-19 by watching the “National Library Week: Super Sized” video at http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/national-library-week-super-sized. Those of you in and around Oshkosh will appreciate this part of his order: “Throw in a couple of copies of magazines with Johnny Depp on the cover; it doesn’t matter which ones.”

This is one of a series of National Library Week videos from the American Library Association. You can watch all of them at http://alfocus.ala.org/categories/national-library-week.

Local photos of Johnny Depp in the midst of filming "Public Enemies" in Oshkosh can be found here:

• http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/research/publicenemies
• http://www.fdlpl.org/enemies.html
• http://flickr.com/photos/keetra/

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