YouTube & Google Video

The variety of what is available on these sites is truly amazing. It seems that you can find a video about anything.

I knew that Mosman Library hosts author talks regularly but I didn't know that they were available on Goggle Video for "all the world to see". A wonderful idea to further promote the library service.

I like the idea of a virtual tour around the library being available on the library website. It would be an informative way to introduce people to what services are available in a non threatening manner.

We have recently been talking about trying to make a child friendly brochure to teach them how to search and locate resources in the library. Perhaps a video would be an appropriate introduction, particularly when school classes visit.

I think that videos could also be used as staff instruction tools. They could be embedded in the Policies and Procedures manual (wiki of course!) to show new staff how to perform certain tasks, often visual aids are easier to comprehend than a written description, particularly with regard to a physical task.

I was interested to note that when I searched both YouTube and Google Video for "library public Australia" very little was returned. When I broadened the search and just used "library public" many more results were displayed, almost all from the USA.