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Make it Pop:

How to use pop culture in your library

Sarah Wethern and Scott Rader

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He's a transponster!

Sarah and Scott's pop culture journey...

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What do you consider pop culture?

How would you define pop culture?

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What is Pop Culture?

"[T]he entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are preferred by an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture . . ." -Wikipedia

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What's The

Expiration

Date?

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What's The

Expiration

Date?

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What's The

Expiration

Date?

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The question is...

How can libraries capitalize on teen trends before the trend has passed libraries by and teens have moved onto the next thing?

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It

is

not

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a new

literacy

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"[L]iteracy is in constant flux and embedded in cultural situations, each situation nuanced and different from others."

Elmborg (2006)

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deal?

big

the

What's

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"But even the most avid reader in this culture is invariably going to spend his or her time with other media ..."

Johnson (2005)

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Fandom

Twilight

Star Wars

Star Trek

Hunger Games

Harry Potter

Game of Thrones

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Fandom

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Fandom

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Blurred

Lines

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Niche

Cultures

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Together

Bringing Cultures

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Nostalgia

Culture

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CYCLE

1990s

2012

Re

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Celebrity

Everywhere

Culture

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Connect

With

Your

Patrons

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Recognize

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Capitalize

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Let

Go!

It

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Mathe-

matical!

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Bad Lip

Reading

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Library

Cons

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The Library

as the

Watercooler

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In The

Community

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Network

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Get

Creative

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Get Viral

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Forever Young Adult (blog)

EW's Popwatch Blog

Television Without Pity

Keep Up

PBS Off Book (Off Book is a web series from PBS that explores cutting edge art, internet culture, and the people that create it.)

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Keep Up

Television Without Pity

YALSA's The Hub

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Photo Credits

Slide 3: Etech05: Audience by James Duncan Davidson - http://flic.kr/p/A5mN
Slide 4: ST/BORF by Mickey van der Stap - http://flic.kr/p/2EqG4D
Slide 8: Progress by Kevin Dooley - http://flic.kr/p/5S37yc
Slide 9: Screaming for Air by Carsten Schertzer - http://flic.kr/p/ak3BqH
Slide 10: Green Screen by Sam Greenhalgh - http://flic.kr/p/5BEcjU
Slide 12: Le Voyage des Ballons Multicolores by Nicki Varkevisser - http://flic.kr/p/6fVbRx

used under creative commons license

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Slide 14: Calm Before the Storm by JD Hancock - http://flic.kr/p/7EVvgf
Slide 22: Paparazzi! by Federico Borghi - http://flic.kr/p/3hnZsw
Slide 23: Sharing Music, Roman Style by Ed Yourdon - http://flic.kr/p/5GVN1w
Slide 25: Evil Doers, Beware! by Hyrck - http://flic.kr/p/6dbF6r
Slide 26: Mouthing Off by Demi-Brooke - http://flic.kr/p/4ytjwU

Photo Credits

used under creative commons license

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Slide 27: San Diego Comic-Con 2011 - Adventure Time’s Finn and Jake atop Ciro’s Pizza by Pop Culture Geek - http://flic.kr/p/a7aKej
Slide 29: Avengers Assembled! by blackbirdfly.me - http://flic.kr/p/bnkyvd
Slide 31 - IMG_5382.jpg by Anthony Lagoon - http://flic.kr/p/aARfv3
Slide 32 - Spiderman and Froggie’s lunch is about to be rudely disrupted by Kevin Dooley - http://flic.kr/p/5nQuLW

Photo Credits

used under creative commons license

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Slide 2: from "With Friends Like These" by Warren Littlefield - http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/05/friends-oral-history-top-of-the-rock
Slide 5: from http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com/index.html
Slide 6: from "Angry Birds Is Coming To Facebook On Valentine’s Day" by Oliver Haslam - http://www.redmondpie.com/angry-birds-is-coming-to-facebook-on-valentines-day/
Slide 7: from tumblr.com
Slide 24: from “29 People Caught Reading Fifty Shades of Grey in Public” by Whitney Jefferson- http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/29-people-caught-reading-fifty-shades-of-grey-in

Other Photo Credits

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Critical information literacy: implications for instructional practice by James Elmborg. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 32 number 2, pages 192-199.
"Transliteracy: Crossing divides by Sue Thomas, Chris Joseh, et al. First Monday, volume 12, number 12, 3 December 2007.
Everything Bad is Good for you: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. P 21.

References

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Questions?

Contact information:

�Sarah Wethern

Email: sarah.wethern@gmail.com
Twitter: whtabtpineapple
Blog: http://yalibrariantales.com

Scott Rader

Email: srader@hayspublib.org
Twitter: scottyrader
Blog: http://srld.wordpress.com