First question was how I felt about the experience of using YouTube and what I think about the service. When looking for examples of library videos, I found a lot of humor, not necessarily fluff though. My favorite video showing the “traditional” library is the ad for the Betty Glover Library Workout Tape from 1987. What a hoot! Here’s my attempt at following the advanced option to embed the code. We’ll see if it works!
Other videos that were fun or interesting to me included:
Building Academic Library 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI
I was able to fast forward and find a good question and answer time at about 57 minutes on developing policies for Friending on MySpace and Facebook – analogy to having a librarian go to a bar with a bunch of students trying to look cool and implications with an invasion of privacy!
Amsterdam Public Library 2.0 http://youtube.com/watch?v=-pJl1wDGMr0
Library promotional, but question the use of 6 minutes with music and no explaining what is what.
Four hours in the Health Sciences Library (Time Lapse) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3P5HZaM_k Disappointing you never see any interaction with a librarian or if user asked for any online help through their website. Two comments were related to the “catchy” tune. OK – it’s written from the user’s perspective.
Bill Clinton Library http://youtube.com/watch?v=AScoMhVZQnw
Humor, library promotion
Seneca Library Holiday Song http://youtube.com/watch?v=cMVMgDWnoaA
Maybe a more environmentally friendly choice to printed cards?
Overall, I think YouTube is an entertaining resource, not really the place to find something serious about promoting one’s library. So you point your users to whatever keywords or URL for a specific video, but no guarantees there won’t be more entertaining things to lure them away!
Question Two (which really should have been the first question, but hey, I learned in one of the podcasts that in Library 2.0 we need to get rid of the culture of perfect!): Potential uses for podcasting? If so, what and why? I believe the UNC Health Sciences Library used a podcast for self-guided tours of the building post-renovation. Personally, I would prefer the human interaction but I am sure that going through the exercise of writing a script seemed like then taking the natural path to saving it in a format that can be retrieved later and that was not dependent on having a tape player around. I found it very interesting to look at the podcasts available from the Claude Moore Library at UVA, but found the voice a little annoying and hard to imagine listening for a full hour. By contrast, had I seen the person on a Video, it may have been less offensive but then I would not be able to listen to some of the interesting topics while riding the bus or on the treadmill!
I see podcasting as a great technology for follow-ups after a course such as on EndNote, RefWorks, PubMed or any library software. However, if it is just audio, it seems you would want someone following along with a tutorial or some type of online exercise. It is natural that this requires a device to take the material “on the go” so the technology seems very appropriate for distance ed students, commuting students, and self-guided library tours.
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