Monday, July 27, 2009

Thing 20: YouTube

YouTube is a lot of fun!

There are videos on anything you can imagine. Lots of technical help and answers! There is even a recording of a PDQ Bach concert that was performed for the musicians retirement fund when I lived in Boston with Itzhak Perlman as one of the soloists.

There is a wonderful series of spoofs on the Mac/PC ads with the Allen County Library:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWY8OBMlroI


There are videos from ALA conferences. The Burbank(Ca) library did a simple but elegant video for their One Book, One Community Reads program. I like the Burbank video because it was simple to produce and could involve a lot of patrons in the mix (although one reviewer called it "boring.") Burbank has a pretty active blog, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AcrhvLGPDU


I think that simple is more effective and doesn't cloud the message. I can see using you tube for library produced "help" files, links to our calendar of events.

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