Both YouTube and Podcasting can be of great value for public libraries. That is especially true when one is trying to promote or extend access to Library programs, give tours to the public of new facilities and make public announcements. It could represent the future of PR for Public Libraries.
Yet, there is one value I have recently discovered with YouTube Community for those of us who are relentless reference librarians -- fancy ourselves "Library Detectives". You can sometimes find bits of information that otherwise would not be accessible. I recently located information on a relatively obscure actress about whom I could find nothing of substance via Google from none other than her niece who was a teenage member of a YouTube group and giving viewers information on the next appearace. The World is getting smaller!
I must admit, however, that being a YouTube Community Member at age 57 puts me among the dinosaurs of that realm. Most of the active participants seem to be about 18 or a bit older.
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