Videos

I think that the videos that can be created on Youtube etc are great. It certainly gives a different perspective on the regular dose of distorted rubbish that we are dished up nightly from News Limited and Fairfax Group. Youtube is real information and not edited. The only concern I have is that obsessive people can zero in on their obsessions and become more confined in their neurosis by constantly feeding it with input.
However, from a library point of view we can promote libraries and target all groups through a simple search facility eg NS libraries and a young person's point of view can be easily viewed as to what their needs are, and the value to them of libraries. We need to target our youth as they are our future leaders. I liked the video on "Got a question, get a live answer". Although being still a novice at many aspects of this technology I am not sure one could not find out the answer by doing a google search in the first place.
I adored "All about Olive". It is about time that oral history took on movie history. Olive wasn't about recreated her youth for herself. She was about telling her story to the youth so that they could understand that there is nothing new under the sun as far as the human condition is concerned, nothwithstanding her bodily aging and its dysfunction.
The only problem I see is that we may be making too much information sharing on-line through things like Youtube rather than face to face. I don't want to loose the human presence in our lives. However on a positive note I loved the subject "How not to conduct a reference interview" and recall it quite vividly from my librarian study days. I must say that in this day and age the more I am subjected to the availability of information regarding daily worklife (outside my personal life) via computers the more I go out of my way to value my friendships (and I mean face to face....let's do lunch....let's have coffee..etc). But I love the 23 things and am enjoying every moment of it.