Step #3: YouTube

I can’t believe AFV (America’s Funniest Videos) is still on the air when you can watch all different kinds of videos on YouTube!  It seems like it takes so much prep work to make a video, or, at least a watchable one that I’m surprised by how many people have videos on here.  My cell phone can take video, so I guess I can be a poster to YouTube easily enough!

After reading the You Tube article, I thought of two videos we could think about making.  It just gives me the hee-bee-gee-bees to think how much prep work this would take, but if a “committee” could work on it, I think the burden would be lighter.  First idea: “The Day in the Life of a Book.”  Show a book being taken out of a box, processed in Tech etc. (some of this could be speeded up to save time, unless the purpose is to show each step), have it put on the shelf, “someone” looks it up in the catalog, finds it on the shelf (or asks a librarian (grin), checks it out in circ, have on the bottom of the screen “three weeks later” and then the same “someone” returning the book.  All of this could be speeded up; that might be funny.  Or, we could be explaining some steps to show what all goes into the process of a book being available at the library.  Second idea:  Either in conjunction with the City/Chamber of Commerce/Taste of Park Ridge committee or Just The Library have a contest where patrons (all ages???  broken up by age groups???) post videos about “What Park Ridge means to me”  or “What the Library means to me” or another theme with winners announced at the Tent Event or The Taste of Park Ridge or another determined time.  Have all videos available on You Tube/through the Library’s website/through the City’s website etc. for voting purposes.  Have the winning video play at the Tent Event/Taste of Park Ridge/in the first floor meeting room for “all to see.”

Fun part:  I like watching videos of dogs in general, and weimaraners in particular, since I have a weimaraner of my own.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVAxY4HG5Q  This is where some of you might have seen weimaraners before!  The photographer, William Wegman, sometimes had (I think this was awhile ago) his weimaraners on Sesame Street.  I had to put this one in there:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8rNYaWH3g  I remember when Smokey was a puppy.  Now she is a 65 pound behemoth! 

 And, since I am a fanatic about making sure our desks and the patrons computers have golf pencils at them, I especially like this tongue-in-cheek documentary about how those golf pencils are made:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PGGC7FNwE  “Short Pencil Saga.”