This week has been fun. I can see a lot of applications for podcasting in my library. We currently do Camtasia video tutorials for a number of our services and databases. A podcast seems like a great alternative, especially with the ability to send regular podcasts to "subscribers". We could do a semester long orientation of brief podcasts that are sent to freshman throughout their first semester.
YouTube seems like another great possibility. Not only is it such a friendly site, but it also groups similar videos together, so if I put up a video about using the library's bibliographic citation manager, our students might find related videos that YouTube suggests. One of my favorite videos (it's silly of course) is How to Use a Book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&feature=related.
One thing that had not occured to me was how important the sound and video quality are. I'd want to be sure any podcast or video representing my library was done as professionally as possible. I think poor audio would be particularly annoying for our patrons - and the whole point is to constantly improve the library-patron relationship!
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