"Funny Animal Antics"

After reading Pinky's blog on the YouTubes, I couldn't help myself. I originally found this on Cute Overload (thanks Project Play for showing that to me....I have lost hours of my life to that)

I loved all the library YouTube examples for this week's lesson. How creative some places can be. I can't help but think, for right now at least, that using YouTube to get young adults and younger involved in the library would be the best use for it. It seemed they were the ones who participated in the library contests featured today. I love the idea of letting them loose to promote a YS program, or just promote the library services to their peers.

And then embedding clips of, or entire, programs, for those who missed them. Fundraising campaign messages. Program promotions. Library opening celebrations. Just plain old self promotion. As libraries get good at promoting themselves with this technology, would local media catch on and use the YouTube clips on their special interest shows? You do see a lot of these "amateur" videos on television these days....

Veronica showed me how to do it

So here it is. Now when I do the YouTubes, I'll know how to do that too.

Podcasting

I'm cheating this week and not doing very much since I'm WAY behind in Project Play. I already knew a little bit about podcasts, as one of the things that gets me through the week is my Stephanie Miller podcast subscription (though she's on vacation this week, which is seriously effecting my mood.....) I did listen to all y'all's gabcasts. Nice work!

As for what you might use podcasts for in the library world: I like the idea of a book talk podcast - mini book reviews on a regular basis - a la abécédaire's gabcast. Or instead of subscribing to the enewsletter, getting a 2 minute update on library happenings via podcast. Or, as some have suggested, tutorials to guide people step by step through processes they need to learn like setting up email accounts. (would a youtube be better for this? just listening to something may not be as conducive to the learning process as listening and seeing.) Recordings of a library program that folks missed but may want to listen to?

Trying to learn, play and fear less.