Thursday, January 10, 2008

I am forever amazed at the wonderful things you can find on YouTube. This is a great case in point. I found this video of Meredith Farkas' keynote address at UC Berkeley's Academic Libraries 2.0 on "Building Academic Library 2.0" to be fascinating. Lots of good ideas here.

Perhaps even more important than the matter of the talk is the concept of making this lecture available on the Net. As McLuhan would say, "The medium is the message." Many libraries, especially smaller libraries, cannot afford to send staff to many conferences. Videos like this allow much better dissemination of ideas to these librarians.



2 comments:

Tony Hirst said...

Hi John,
I've been tinkering with a couple of techniques for browsing UCB youtube playlisted courses, and search over all the video lectures they have posted up there; details are at http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012375.html

I've also used the widget to make OpenLearn open content courseware from the Open University available too (http://feedlearner.com)

tony

John Adkins said...

Tony,

Sorry to be so long in replying. Thank you for these two links. I have found them quite useful in guiding me to more lunchtime listening and viewing. Thanks!

John