Write a blog entry discussing how you felt about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library? If so what and why?
YouTube is a mixed bag of amateur and professional clips, with varying degrees of quality. It is difficult to search, there is no thesaurus or subject approach. It is user generated, and there does not seem to be any attempt at quality control or quality collection.
Potential uses for podcasting: orientation tours, short how to guides (as database searches, resource and subject guides, recordings of library instruction sessions, added feature on staff directory page (each staff member could have an associated Youtube clip.
These uses could introduce the library and its services to patrons at their
convenience, and could assist them with their research (or at least get them started) when a librarian is not available. Youtube clips may be more easily
understood by those who find print and text resources challenging.
