YouTube and Libraries

2007 April 1           Print post Print post
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I gave a half hour presentation at MPOW about YouTube and Libraries.

I spent about 5 minutes at the start looking at what made it a social site:

  • Ratings
  • Video Responses
  • Profiles
  • Goups
  • Community tab
  • Comments
  • Most linked, most viewed etc.
  • Citizen journalism and everyday folk
  • Copyright violations - take don’t ask
  • Favourites
  • Playlists

I then played clips that illustrated these uses:

  • Library promotion
  • Library events
  • Information literacy
  • For librarians - new ideas
  • For librarians - staff development
  • Libraries in the news
  • Library recruitment
  • To remind us just how far we’ve come.

Here’s the wiki page where I embedded the clips, YouTube and Libraries.

Below is the only one I played twice. Prizes if you can view it only once and work out why Fabio is in it.

Embedded video: Calgary Public Library’s Storytime clip

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2 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 April 2

    Wish I could have attended your presentation Kathryn. It sounds fascinating.

  2. 2007 April 2
    Kathryn Greenhill permalink

    It was fun. And a chance to throw in some L2 propaganda. Laura Cohen’s “2.0 manifesto for librarians” was the only one I played in full. Partly for the content - well mainly for the content - but also to point out the simplicity and give an introduction to mashups.

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