YouTube

i love the sesame street, cookie monster at the library video. sometimes i feel like that exasperated puppet-librarian!



i do love youtube, i think it's great. i don't use it often because i just don't have the time. but often people will send me links of funny video's and i'll watch it and than i'll use the side where it says 'related links'. i'm a sucker for anything animal related. my favorite video to rewatch is 'christian the lion'. it's a real tearjerker. here's the link, but i'm sure most people have seen it:

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

another favorite is the ninja cat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M

another favorite, sans animals is the aicha song. you can feel his heart breaking while he's singing on his minnie mouse sheets...and when he starts breaking out his dance moves...there's no stopping him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbJmLPhsmI

i like this site because it's easy to use and it recommends related videos. i can see youtube being useful to the library. i actually read an article about booktalking on video and posting it on youtube. i looked it up online and found that scholastic booktalks some books, like 'chasing vermeer'. this would be a great way to take advantage of this technology. librarians can booktalk and post it on the children's website and 'feature' a different book each week. i also know that patchogue library's ya librarian, brian, uses youtube to post silly videos of him talking about that week's programs. he did this last summer, so it might just be a summer thing. one of his video's had 101 views and another had 90-something. it could be brian just watching it over and over, but i doubt it.