Week 9 Thing 20

Explored You Tube. You Tube is really neat. It has videos on every subject imagineable. Some are entertaining and some are informational. I found videos on pets, candlepin bowling, tennis racket stringing, gymnastic bloopers, library cart drill teams, news topics and beyond. The "Super Cute Puppy Morph" video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=KzlWjQfLk-Q , a video with different breeds of barking dogs morphing into other breeds is very cute. Another video that I found, "Federer on a string"video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKITZ2061eU is very informational. Marisa Wong from Wall Street Journal is interviewing the head of the U.S. Open's string team about restringing the player's rackets at the U. S. Open. I never knew that the star players had their rackets restrung before matches. You Tube is easy to navigate. I liked being able to search You Tube in a variety of ways: by typing in keywords, clicking on the video or categories tabs and browisng, or using the menus on the side to browse the top Rated, Most recent, Top favorite videos. The Help page is very good. Libraries could use the same technology in their websites to provide tutorials on databases and the catalog and to promote programs or services. For instance, Sneaks promoted BCPL's Summer Reading Club on You tube this summer. The video could be used in our website to promote the SRC to everyone who uses our web page.