You Tube (Thing 18)

1. What I saw: The Adventures of Super Librarian
What were they trying to accomplish: promote outstanding assistance provided by librarians, what materials they have you can check out and services they have at the library.
How effective: Pretty entertaining, probably had just the right amount of information in it.
2. What I saw: Super Librarian
What they were trying to accomplish: promote how valuable librarians are, that they are right at your fingertips in your neighborhood and encouraged them to get to know their librarian.
How effective: Pretty effective. Simple advocating of librarians is always a good thing to do. One scary part: They said librarians could find the answer to any question. (We do our best and then refer them if we have to)
3. What I saw: A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto
What were they trying to accomplish: to make a pledge to embrace the future of librarianship.
How effective: words very effective. Pledges I particularly want to embrace: take an active part in moving library forward, embrace change and promote it even when other resist it, let go of previous practices (ouch!), libraries need to remain vital and a relevant voice in information seeking and techniques.
4. What I saw: Allen County Public Library Channel
What were they trying to accomplish: advertise and provide minimal information about the Summer Reading 2010 program.
How effective were they: pretty cute advertisement promoting reading. They covered the what, where, when and how in regards to the summer reading program. Listed prizes kids can earn by counting the number of hours they read this summer.
5. What I saw: Abilene Public Library: Storytimes & Children's Programs
What were they trying to accomplish: two people staff I presume were trying to promote, talk about and explain their storytimes and programs.
How effective: For nine minutes these two staff sat at a table and batted back and forth information about storytimes etc. It was too long, quality of production and their bouncing back and forth with conversational talk about their programs no so effective. I could hear one staff hitting the table as they talked. Could have been much shorter with quick snappy information and visuals. Could not stick with it for nine minutes.
6. What I saw: Webster Public Library/Storytime with Miss A
What they were trying to accomplish: she was teaching the song Little Bunny Foo Foo and then sang it with her audience who were there and who could not physically be there at storytime.
How effective: for the child who recognizes Miss A and who was sick and could not attend storytime but can still experience it in some way, very effective.

* Other uses to promote: Could use it promote most anything in the library; author readings, new databases, tutorial on how to use self check, computer classes.
* How can we address "authoritative" in You Tube searching. I suppose it would be just like the Internet, check the source. Look for links from .gov, .org, .edu, news for authoritative sites.







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How can we address "authoratative" in You Tube searching?