You tube

I've watched the You tube videos and surprised myself - I enjoyed some of them! Olive's return to Broken Hill was heartwarming and, at times, funny. Great way to present enjoyable local and oral history. She's a feisty old dame! I hated the timelapse construction video for the State Library of Qld. It made me feel sick watching it, and I had to keep looking elsewhere. Obviously it would be good to document the construction of a new library (thinking here of the new Katoomba Library!) but not using timelapse for that amount of time. Maybe short tours of the site at different intervals of the construction?
Book reviews - The Dr Dyl Show... what can I say!!!!!!! I think it would work very well for children and teen book reviews, and even for book groups with specific themes (I can see a Star Wars/Trek group doing video reviews - but maybe that's my biased perception!) Something for our Childrens/YA team to think about? Maybe they could work for adult book reviews - I would like to see a professional job for this, which is a bit outside our scope. But, yet again, that could be my own bias.
I can see great potential in tours of the library - especially of specialised collections. A tour showcasing our local history collection would be great. If we put it on You Tube it will reach people who may not normally come in and ask to look at this collection. Also staff updates and training delivered by You Tube would work well in our multi-location library service. Great potential to reach casual staff as well. We just need to find staff willing to stand in front of the camera!
Artexpress - I can see that these videos (there were lots more on both the shows and the process went through to create the art works) would be used a lot by art teachers and students. Great resource for parents trying to help their kids with HSC art. We could use video to promote exhibitions we hold. I think of the photographic competition held a few years ago. We could have taken video of putting the displays together and then the function when the winners were announced.
First thing we need to do is purchase a library video camera that is 'idiot proof' so we can practice making some videos. 2nd thing we need to do is find time to do all this stuff!!!!
Looking at Google Video. Much longer videos are possible. The ones for Mosman Library are talks of around 45 minutes. However the quality of the picture is poor and I hated watching them. I listened rather than lookedg at them. I really enjoyed the Peter Fitzsimons talk about Kokoda. The story about Nancy Wake is especially funny.