I use YouTube all the time. It's great for watching music videos (since you can't really do that on MTV or VH1 anymore); catching up on whatever had everyone cracking up on late night TV last night; or looking for clips of favorite commercials and TV shows from childhood (love the nostalgia factor).
I'm only really familiar with libraries utilizing YouTube for marketing purposes, but I think there's also potential there for instruction, as proven by the "In Plain English" videos found through the CTLS 23 Things. Reference librarians could probably save themselves a lot of time if they could just slap a video on how to attach a document to an e-mail on their library's homepage and direct patrons to that.
Anyway, you've probably all seen the video of librarians dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in Australia that was linked to in a recent issue of AL Direct, but here's a little more MJ-at-the-library action for you:
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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