Exploring You Tube is just like delving into Pandora's Box- you just don't know what you're going find! This online video sharing website contains "oodles and oodles" of commercials, episodes of television shows, music videos and songs- new and old, making nostalgia buff's like me more excited than Imelda Marcos shopping for shoes. There is a myriad of armature documentaries and videos on any topic you can think of too.
Searching You Tube for videos about libraries, librarians and new web technologies, I came across "Libraries in 2010".
Although humorous in parts, the presenter reinforces the importance of libraries, or rather, "we" as library staff, keeping up to date with new information trends and emerging technologies (like pod casting, blogs, social networking tools)- or face becoming redundant!
By keeping ourselves informed and educated we can remain leaders of the information community and encourage library users to embrace these new emerging technologies too. This can be done by incorporating the above mentioned technologies into our information literacy programs.
This video also reiterates how participating in professional development activities, like the "23 Things" program will help us to develop our skills to become competent in the use of Web 2.0 Technologies, so we can share our skills and knowledge with our clients.
Performing searches on You Tube for library themed material was actually quite fun! I came across a few instructional videos on how to use libraries (user ed. stuff), but these were American based- though still quite informative. Episodes of "The Librarian" from the ABC had been posted, as well as sketches from Mr. Bean, The Mary Hartman Show, and even Sesame Street- with Cookie Monster finding out the hard way that cookies aren't allowed in the library!
It was at this point, I decided to search for my favourite Sesame Street alphabet segment of all time.
How familiar are you with the letter "N"?
Searching You Tube for videos about libraries, librarians and new web technologies, I came across "Libraries in 2010".
Although humorous in parts, the presenter reinforces the importance of libraries, or rather, "we" as library staff, keeping up to date with new information trends and emerging technologies (like pod casting, blogs, social networking tools)- or face becoming redundant!
By keeping ourselves informed and educated we can remain leaders of the information community and encourage library users to embrace these new emerging technologies too. This can be done by incorporating the above mentioned technologies into our information literacy programs.
This video also reiterates how participating in professional development activities, like the "23 Things" program will help us to develop our skills to become competent in the use of Web 2.0 Technologies, so we can share our skills and knowledge with our clients.
Performing searches on You Tube for library themed material was actually quite fun! I came across a few instructional videos on how to use libraries (user ed. stuff), but these were American based- though still quite informative. Episodes of "The Librarian" from the ABC had been posted, as well as sketches from Mr. Bean, The Mary Hartman Show, and even Sesame Street- with Cookie Monster finding out the hard way that cookies aren't allowed in the library!
It was at this point, I decided to search for my favourite Sesame Street alphabet segment of all time.
How familiar are you with the letter "N"?
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