Wednesday, February 17, 2010

This week was interesting, I have used you tube before but was new to google video. I have only used you tube for enertainment and was not sure if it would be that useful in a library environment. I think it could be quite expensive to produce a professional looking video to promote a library or to show patrons how to use services in the library. I could see it may work to film things like author visits or events but you would also have to be careful that you had the permission of everybody who was in the footage. It may also be frustating for patrons to use the video links from home as we have found using our own computers if your internet link is not quick enough it is very difficult to watch video footage. Patrons in this situationwill most likely give up if they have to watch a video to get the information, so it would need to be in text on the libraries website as well.

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