Wednesday, July 2, 2008

YouTube

I have been on both Google Video and YouTube looking for videos for State Libraries, the British Library and Flinder's map and found them interesting even though Flinders Map is a bit childish for what I was expecting

Its a pity our State Library isn't on there but it was good to see the State Library of Queensland on this site

We love our NJ Libraries was good as it was by the clients not the staff and looked great. QandANJ: Now your library is open late night too! was good also like a drive-in except for information and I thought it was well done!

I found Worthington libraries - Just read which wasn't as good as the others but it was funny and was set to Michael Jackson's song Beat it.

Alberta's public libraries - celebrating 100 years was good and gave the whole history of the libraries themselves and the people living in this town were very serious about setting up a library when they started building the town

I checked out the Mosman Library and unfortunately chose the wrong link but after a Google search I found the right website. Its a great page and had webcasts of Authors doing book reviews and a virtual tour which was good too

The State Library of Queensland have several video clips of the new library being built on YouTube.

Library of Congress had an interactive videoclip on the Exhibition called Explorers of Early America which was great and very user-friendly and worth looking up!

Birmingham Public Book Reviews with the authors talking about their books and if you were interested in that book, it would be great to find out more using these video clips

Montana State University Rennne Library Tour was great as it showed both the buildings on the inside and outside and if you were interested in going to that university it would be a great help to see this to find yourself around

And lastly was PLCMC New employee orientation was the only staff orientation video I could find and consisted with the boss sitting and introducing the staff member to the library. I didn't find it very helpful but I couldn't find anything else.

An Introductory video for the State Library would be great for the library as well as a virtual tour as there are two buildings and it can be a bit confusing as to where to go for new clients.

A video clip of our latest exhibitions would be good so client knows whats on in the Exhibition Galleries and briefly what its about.

Staff orientations would be great to so all staff can become familiar with how the library works and can watch the video before starting their training programme.

It also might be good to have a video clip by our clients about the Library like We love NJ libraries to promote our services and how they use them.

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