This week our assignment was to play around with YouTube. I've used YouTube before, but usually someone will send me a link directly to a video to watch. What I find annoying about YouTube is searching for videos. If you know the exact name of a video, you are likely to find it. But if you don't, or you just want to browse videos on a topic, there isn't a great way to do that.
I tried searching for "library", "medical library" and "health sciences library". I got a few things, but mostly I got a lot of junk back. I did find two videos that were professional and interesting:
Building Academic Library 2.0
This was from an event at UC Berkeley. It was interesting because apparently Berkeley posts a lot of their events on YouTube, which I thought was very cool. You could even subscribe to Berkeley Events and be notified when there are new videos available.
EBLIP4 Keynote 5-9-07 Booth Plutchak Debate
This was also recorded from a session that took place at the EBLIP (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice) Conference in 2007. It was great to be able to watch something like this for those of us that could not attend the meeting. However, I did just stumble across this, I found it purely by luck.
In terms of what features would be nice in a library website, it would be nice to have videos available on our website from guest speakers we have in the library. Currently we can record these sessions, but then we have to pay to have them streamed from the campus streaming videoserver, and it is a monthly charge. Maybe we could look into putting the videos on YouTube instead. Also, maybe posting a video on the library website that is a tour of the library would be nice.
Finally, here is my attempt to embed a video from YouTube into my post:
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