YouTube

Wow the things you can see on YouTube and with the other services is amazing. I saw wonderful examples of libraries using this during National Library Week to advertise their services and shrug off the "boring" library image.

I can see these services being used in several ways.

1. Marketing library services in an interesting way.
2. Using these services to teach clients how to use resources (as we have learned through this course).
3. Using these services to archive presentations made (especially at academic institutions). Large databases of presentations could be created and managed by librarians to help keep the intrinsic knowledge of an institutions professors. In the private world this could be useful for inhouse training.
4. Use things like Odeo to highlight authors or news events to highlight resources in the library without having a author visit.

All of this requires that libraries and other organizations keep access to these video sharing resources open. I hope that libraries and organizations realize the power these resources can use for education and marketing.