Tuesday, August 4, 2009

You Tube - Thing 20

Now I understand why my teen son can spend hours watching random you tube videos. It is fun and entertaining and I guess addicting, if you have the time to waste.

I watched:

How to Read a Library of Congress Call Number from the University of Arkansas. It was very good and informational.

The TLA interview with Stephenie Meyer was so so. The camera was very shaky and the audio was a little hard to hear and sounded a bit echoed.

UNT Libraries Portal to Texas History was excellent.

It looks like some libraries are posting summer reading videos. Some are good, some not so good. I think it is a good way to get kids into the library or at least make them aware of summer activities at the library. It might be good to have links directly from the library home page. Making a library video could be a good activity for the library teens. Some are very tech savvy and would enjoy it. Cincinnati Public Library had a good 30 second Creature Feature. LaPorte Community Library’s The Henry Hound Dog Show was funny. It was a little too long at 10 minutes.

It might be interesting to have short info or program library videos not only on the library home pages, but also the city or community websites and the home pages of colleges and universities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI6ciJA1A0c

I thought this was a well done community college video.

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