In honor of National Library Week 2007, Thomson Gale is launching librareo, an online community for libraries and the people who love them. To start off the project with a big splash, librareo is hosting an “I Love My Library” video contest. The top prize is $10,000 to be split equally between the videomakers and a library of their choosing.

The press release invites library patrons to “make a video no shorter than 30 seconds but no longer than two-minutes professing a deep, abiding love of libraries, librarians and those who depend on them. Load the video to the librareo group on YouTube before midnight EST on Friday, May 25, 2007.”

Send in those videos!