Video Coolness at My Library
Posted on January 8, 2008
Filed Under Video Casting, Videoblogging, video | Tags topeka & shawnee county public library, video, Videoblogging, world of warcraft, wow
Have you been thinking about diving into video? Confused about where to begin? Here are some ideas, taken from the highly creative people that work at my library.
First off, the William Allen White booktalks. What are they? From our Papercuts blog: “Traditionally, the Kansas William Allen White (WAW) book award nominee booktalks have been performed annually by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library staff in person at local area schools. Realizing that it is impossible to reach all students in the service area in person, Sandy Lane and Robin Clark collaborated with Topeka area gifted students to produce these highly creative videos on Youtube featuring book reviews of the current William Allen White nominees for 2007-2008. The videos include interviews from “The Dr. Dyl Show”, several inanimate object reviewers, masked anonymous book reviewers, and one with exceptional headgear.” (go read the whole post!).
Here are the videos:
- The Dr. Dyl Show
- The Dr. Dyl Show 2
- Princess Academy
- Anonymous Book Reviews
- The Sacrifice
- Naked Mole-Rat Letters
Two other videos from my library to point out:
- 90 second book review: Austenland - ”
The Barbies are back, this time to act out scenes from the novel Austenland by Shannon Hale” (from the About This Video on the YouTube page). - World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian - “Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials, made by a Warcraft Blood Elf about her alternate life in the library.” (again, from the About This Video text). This is a cool video - and a great example of machinima, too.
You can find these videos and more on our YouTube channel. So… that’s what we’re doing with video… what are YOU doing with video?
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Hooray! The TSCPL library videos were also mentioned in the new (january 2008) issue of Library Journal — page 15, the “front desk” section, and I have to say, the picture they used of my Barbie doll posing with Colin Firth is basically adorable!
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