video online (week 6)

In some ways, videos seem like less useful technology than some of the other things we have looked at for libraries, mainly because they require quite a bit of work, and the quality can be quite variable. I am not convinced that the pay off is great enough to justify the effort. But I can see that if they are done well, they can really showcase things the library is doing, in a very accessible way, and one that is very widely disseminated. Mosman Library did offer insight into a way that video can be very useful, recording interviews talks so that people who didn't make it to the event can share it. This seems like a much more achievable way of using this technology. Perhaps other events such as storytime could be recorded in this way.