YouTube
I first saw this clip when someone posted it to the USC-SLIS listserv so I looked it up on YouTube so I could put it in my blog. It makes me laugh everytime! I also like to find music videos on YouTube that are hard to find in other places. YouTube and other sites like it (eBaum's World is a great site too) can be very addictive. However, anyone can post (thus the "you" in YouTtube) so there are a lot of videos that aren't that interesting or funny or relevant. There are options though to look at the most viewed videos, most discussed videos, etc. so that can help in weeding out the ones you don't want to see. I know there are issues with copyrighted material being posted so it will be interesting to see what finally happens when that problem is addressed. When I searched for "library" I noticed that many libraries have videos posted about their branches. I could see that having a funny or clever video about CCPL could attract patrons - it could even be embedded into the website so everyone could see it, not just those familiar with YouTube.
Podcasts
I have listened to podcasts in some of my classes at library school. The ones I have listened to are interviews with different types of librarians. I checked out http://www.podcast.net/ and looked up podcasts about book reviews. I noticed that the ones that came up (10) weren't very current. Instead, I just Googled "book review podcast" and came up with more up-to-date ones like the New York Times book review (you do have to subscribe for the most current weekly ones but at least the archived ones are from this year!). I like podcasts but I am more apt to find an article to read about most topics I am interested in instead of listening to a podcast. However, they are great for things like interviews.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
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