Del.icio.us would be handy to have on the RA/Information desk. It will make it easier to find information on certain subjects for school students if the relevant sites were bookmarked and tagged. This will be quite useful and saves time - especially if we are looking for current information, but only have books that contain outdated material. It appears to be easy to set up and use (once the restrictions are removed).

I thought I will try to embed a video into my blog. I hope it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDY0hiMZy8

Exploring YouTube and Google Video

There are some amusing videos on YouTube and Google Video. I found Mr Bean at the Library on YouTube while I was looking for Mosman Library (found them in Google Video). I haven't seen that episode in years but it does show library stereotypes - I think it will be hard to find a very quiet public library these days. I found some great Star Wars videos (one was a library display) that I will watch in my own time.

It was great to see libraries using YouTube and Google Video to promote their services. It is something that we can use to promote our library. This could have been something that we could have used to show our patrons the changes the library went through after the flood we had earlier this year. We can also ask our young patrons to help create a video to promote our services to the youth. Like Mosman, we can put videos of our programs onto YouTube and make it available to patrons who couldn't attend.