YouTube

I looked at this site a couple of years ago when I was wondering about the possibility of teens putting together a library video for us. I thought it would be great way of getting teens involved in libraries and a way of advertising our services. I remember looking at numerous library videos--some of them very funny--and was amazed at how many there were.

For fun I checked out some dachshund videos since I have two of them myself--and they can be such clowns. I've attached a doxie video bar to this blog.

I also watched a talking heads video from the library department of the University of Brighton. There Juliet Eve, with a background in public libraries, discussed what she considered the hype of Libraries 2.0 saying that we need to rethink the what and why of 2.0--how it is not necessarily something radically new and different, and does not address all needs such as the need of physical space. As a case in particular. she mentioned the dearth of places for young people to congregate, and and said libraries should take advantage of this space need too. We shouldn't put all of our eggs in the technological basket, so to speak. Although the video was created over a year ago, it was interesting to hear her comment how an older generation is rapidly catching up on certain technologies, notably Facebook--exactly my experience.


I guess I don't normally go to this site to look up videos, but when I hear of a good one I appreciate the link to YouTube where I can view it. This one, taken from Yahoo! videos, from the site Whatsnewinlibraries.org on the subject of podcasts is pretty lame.

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