I first got turned on to YouTube by friends who wanted to share soccer highlights. The emails would come in imploring one another to check out the goals by Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, the archived footage of George Best and Johan Cruyff ... etc. It seems positively old hat by now, but obviously the YouTube universe has done nothing but expand and it's incredible how vast the site has gotten with a seemingly endless supply of videos in spite of the regular cease and desist notices that YouTube receives from the predictable media giants. Could libraries use this technology? Yeah, I suppose we could make boring snippets showing how to use the self-check machines and the latest things that patrons need to be aware of, but we could also get more creative than we're accustomed to being by putting together mashup videos promoting our programs, events, and anything that can serve as creatively self-promotional or informational. As with many of the tools we've pondered through Library 2.0, the possibilities are limited only by our self-imposed boundaries.
I was tempted to post "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill, but my musical tastes are more than 2 minutes longer than the blurb I chose.
You know where I represent when it comes to baseball ...
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