Youtube is one of the best Internet resources around right now. Just the sheer number of video and data is astounding and you can nearly find whatever you want on it. It is one of the most popular websites used by the public in libraries if not the most popular. Librarians should be apt to use Youtube and many are already creating great videos.
One of the most interesting is What are our future library leaders thinking? I thought this was a good take on people’s thoughts on the future of libraries and what their challenges are, specifically that mention around the 5 minute mark about how librarians need to get used to and accept new technologies such as texting, Youtube, Twitter and so on. It is especially informative about working with other co-workers and other staff in meetings and commissions when personalities are at play or when there needs to be a strategy to move forward with improving the library. These library oriented videos tend to focus on ideas of the future or detail fun events at local libraries that could be used in advertising the library such as gaming events, part of the new Library 2.0 meme. Other videos available include opening events and speeches at conferences.
I think the videos are effective according to the audience who wishes to view them. Kids and teenagers will want to see gaming events available at a library, which will encourage them to check their own library’s offerings on that subject and at least get them in there. Opening events and other meetings tend to be for posterity and as a way to record the history. If the event is something the public would attend, they could be drawn in if they see sizable numbers of people in the videos. But librarians would definitely get the most out of knowing about the future of the library and many videos detail that.
Due to more bugs that the blogger will not fix, it continues to paste code in instead of hyperlinking anything. Unfortunately I will have to paste each thing here.
What are our future library leaders thinking? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQZRW_-9qA
Gaming Events - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQT55ExeF0
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