Ellyssa Kroski

Cosplay in Libraries

How to Embrace Costume Play in Your Library

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cosplay, comics, anime, and geek culture have exploded into the mainstream over recent years and have resulted in a thriving community of costume enthusiasts and pop culture fans. Libraries on the leading edge are already embracing cosplay by integrating this new worldwide sensation into their programming and events. Cosply in Libraries: How to Embrace Costume Play in Your Library includes quotes and interviews with librarians who are incorporating cosplay into their programming as well as with cosplayers. You'll also find 32 full-color photographs of cosplay in action to give you both ideas and inspiration for getting started. Learn all about the world of cosplay and how you can host cosplay events, workshops, makerspaces, clubs, and more in your library!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781442256484
• ISBN-10: 1442256486
• Artikelnr.: 42989547

Autorenporträt

Ellyssa Kroski is the Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 34 books including Law Librarianship in the Digital Age for which she won the AALL's 2014 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. Her ten-book technology series, The Tech Set won the ALA's Best Book in Library Literature Award in 2011. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute, and an international conference speaker. She blogs at Cosplay, Comics, and Geek Culture in Libraries.  Her professional portfolio is located at: http://www.ellyssakroski.com Ellyssa is also an avid cosplayer and has appeared on TLC's Cake Boss TV show as well as in the official music video for New York Comic Con and many other events. Her cosplay portfolio can be found at http://giallogirl.com. Contact her at [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter One: What is Cosplay? Chapter Two: Getting Started: Tools
of the Trade Chapter Three: Places to Go, People to See Chapter Four:
Cosfamous Chapter Five: Libraries Embracing Cosplay Chapter Six: Cosplay
Programming for Libraries Project 1: Host a Comic or Anime Con in your
Library!¿ Project 2: How to Host a Cosplay Contest Project 3: How to Form a
Cosplay Club in Your Library Project 4: How to Host a Cosplay Props 3D
Printing Event Project 5: How to Host a Create Your Own Armor with Worbla
Event Project 6: How to Host an Armor Painting Event Project 7: Budget
Cosplay Event: How to Create an Infinity Gauntlet with Craft Foam Project
8: Budget Cosplay Event: How to Create Cardboard Superhero Helmets Project
9: Budget Cosplay Event: How to Create Papier Mache Minions Project 10: How
to Host a Cosplay Cards Workshop Project 11: Host a Cosplay Web Presence
Workshop Project 12: Plan a Themed Cosplay Lock-In Chapter Seven: Cosplay
Issues, Tips, and Tricks Chapter Eight: Must-Have Cosplay Resources
Appendix A: Cosplay Event Activities Appendix B: Suppliers Directory
Appendix C: Cosplayers Directory Appendix D: Photographers Directory
Appendix E: Cosplay Websites & Blogs Directory Index About the Author