Youtubin' It

Youtube could totally suck a person in for a long, long time! I had been on youtube before, but not a whole lot. I use it sometimes when I am trying to learn a new song on the guitar and don't have a personal recording of the song. It’s actually a really great resource for that. Just searching around for videos of interest to me I realized though that one could keep following the trail of "related videos" forever.

I started my youtube lesson by trying to combine two things I love: Libraries and the Sims 2. I was basically not expecting much, but thought I'd just see. Turns out, there was actually a Sims video someone had made for a competition their library was having. It’s fairly clever, although perhaps one would only appreciate it if they enjoy the Sims.


And here is something if you enjoy Zelda:


I also just searched for some library stuff and found all sorts of great videos...and some not great videos too, but hey, its the internet...what else could I expect?

Here is a video from the 40's talking about the career of librarianship. Dated and awesome, of course.


I had to extract myself at that point because although it was really fun, I had other work to do and feel I understand the lesson. I could have gone on though...

As far as a library application, I wonder if we could make a library tour and post in on youtube and our library home page. We used to have one done in still photos using some sort of sideshow application I believe, (this was actually prior to my time at Rocky). Perhaps this would be a way to revive that feature using 2.0 technology.