YouTube in the Library SIL New Media Office Brown Bag Lunch Presentation July 11, 2008 Conrad Ziyad

What is YouTube? YouTube is a video sharing site where users can upload, watch, and share clips with millions of other users Users can tag videos with descriptive keywords Over 100 million videos on YouTube, with roughly 65,000 videos added each day Users can create video collections, called channels, grouped by creator Free

YouTube is a video sharing site where users can upload, watch, and share clips with millions of other users

Users can tag videos with descriptive keywords

Over 100 million videos on YouTube, with roughly 65,000 videos added each day

Users can create video collections, called channels, grouped by creator

Free

YouTube & Library 2.0 YouTube is part of a new digital information culture called Web 2.0 Technological advances drive innovations in information delivery Library as service Library services shaped by user expectations (analogous to ATM impact on banking). From anywhere, anytime

YouTube is part of a new digital information culture called Web 2.0

Technological advances drive innovations in information delivery

Library as service

Library services shaped by user expectations (analogous to ATM impact on banking). From anywhere, anytime

YouTube & Library 2.0 (cont.) YouTube combines all of the Web 2.0 elements in a single application: video, comments, sharing, linking, tagging, and embedding Smithsonian Libraries YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/user/SmithsonianLibraries

YouTube combines all of the Web 2.0 elements in a single application: video, comments, sharing, linking, tagging, and embedding

Smithsonian Libraries YouTube Channel:

http://youtube.com/user/SmithsonianLibraries

How can YouTube aid Libraries? Engage different types of learners (visual, auditory vs. narrative readers) Increase accessibility for the physically challenged Virtual demonstrations of library tools and facilities Penn State University Library Database Search http://youtube.com/watch?v=tKvR0OC4nYc

Engage different types of learners (visual, auditory vs. narrative readers)

Increase accessibility for the physically challenged

Virtual demonstrations of library tools and facilities

Penn State University Library

Database Search

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tKvR0OC4nYc

How can YouTube aid Libraries? (cont.) Method to actively “market” library services to the public Oregon State University Libraries http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ff2t3KbZzyM UCSD Libraries http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkrYHfd1BMY DePauw Univ. Libraries http://youtube.com/watch?v=0GPKCNWspFU

Method to actively “market” library services to the public

Oregon State University Libraries

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ff2t3KbZzyM

UCSD Libraries

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkrYHfd1BMY

DePauw Univ. Libraries

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0GPKCNWspFU

Adding a Video to YouTube Let’s add a short clip to the SIL YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/SmithsonianLibraries

Let’s add a short clip to the SIL YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/SmithsonianLibraries

Resources for Further Viewing Building Academic Library 2.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= q_uOKFhoznI Arlington Heights Memorial Library (IL) Technical Services http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iRDOe4Bw4 (YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/LibVlog ) Bloomfield Public Library (NJ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVk1Dx-If5k Fayette County Public Library (Fayette County, GA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Mvu_vhCbhHg Millard Sheets Library at Otis College of Art and Design http://youtube.com/watch?v=pS28qydjfsg

Building Academic Library 2.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= q_uOKFhoznI

Arlington Heights Memorial Library (IL) Technical Services http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iRDOe4Bw4 (YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/LibVlog )

Bloomfield Public Library (NJ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVk1Dx-If5k

Fayette County Public Library (Fayette County, GA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Mvu_vhCbhHg

Millard Sheets Library at Otis College of Art and Design

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pS28qydjfsg