Ah, here I am at Thing #20. This is one of the trickier ones because I can't actually post my video of choice because I am certain that it would be a copyright infringement. It's a scene from the film "Party Girl" in which Parker Posey, aspiring librarian, lashes out a library patron for reshelving a book in a random spot. It's a funny little bit (and not as mean-spirited as it sounds)from one of the funnier movies about librarians that I have seen. The point here is that a YouTube user edited this piece from a copyrighted movie and uploaded it to YouTube. Because I believe that this snippet was posted outside of copyright, it would be wrong of me to post it here.

I found another video titled "Building Academic Library 2.0", and I've embedded it into my page. Be warned that this video is over an hour long, but once you get past the first 15 minutes of "housekeeping" it has some great content worth viewing, as it talks about implementing new technologies (including distance) to serve faculty, staff and students at UC Berkeley. This might be a good model for any academic library to follow.



First, I love YouTube for its humorous videos, but have also used its content for instructional purposes in both my personal and professional life. I have been stumped and needed to figure out how to knit a specific stitch, and found it more useful to watch a YouTube video rather than try to follow along in a book. In my professional life, I use YouTube to find videos on library services in other communities. For instance, I've seen libraries create video snippets demonstrating how to access the library catalog, or snippets on how to differentiate between scholarly journal article and magazine articles. These types of vidoes can greatly help library communities to access important information 24/7, and in digestible bits. I would like to see this type of instruction implemented in the CSM Library website someday.

Thing #20.....CHECK!!!!!!