Library online tutorials are becoming more and more popular within the e-learning library environment. It has been recognised that the best way to reach library patrons, especially young student population, is providing digital e-learning tools that are appealing to them.
The most recent issue of the Academic Newswire Library Journal published online on 14th August features cover article titled Cornell Library Embraces YouTube that highlights the success of library video tutorials at the recent American Library Association annual conference. The tutorials have been created by the Cornell University Librarian and a filmmaker Kaila Bussert who used nothing else but the open source software Audacity to edit sound and Apple’s iMovie to edit video recordings.
The videos have been viewed 2000 times since their release on YouTube and have received extremely positive feedback from the academic library staff community, as well as from students.
Cornell librarians claim that taking advantage of increasingly popular web applications, like podcasts and videos, are just the ticket to get to the students. They highlight: “All it takes is a little hardware, a committed staff, and a little creativity.”
The American Library Association has created PRIMO database specialising in recognising and providing access to numerous peer-reviewed instructional library materials online, including online tutorials. The database administrators promote “PRIMO Site of the Month” featuring new e-learning high-quality instructional programme that may be of interest to world-wide library community. The videos accessible through PRIMO are developed by a variety of library staff, ranging from research to public library institutions. Some of the software applications used to create the tutorials are the following:
TechSmith Camtasia Studio 5 Programme
Apple iMovie
MS MovieMaker
Adobe Captivate 3 Programme
Adobe Flash CS3
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Flash Cs3 Video Encoder
Adobe Soundbooth
Windows Media Encoder
Wondershire
Audacity
Replay Converter & Media Catcher
Prism Video Converter
AND MORE…
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I would say that one of the most useful aspects of video tutorials - and one of the reasons they are popular - is that they can actually SHOW the audience how to do things.
This works particularly well with e-resources, where a wordy description or endless screenshots can be a lot more unwieldy than a short video file.
What role does the availability (or lack thereof) of computers play in the usefulness of video tutorials?? Not all NZ students have the luxury of having their own computer/laptop. Adademic instutions do their best I'm sure, to provide students with computers but demand always exceedes supply.
So many of our students already use YouTube that it makes sense to add our library videos - it's a good way to reach a large number of students with minimal effort
I completely agree with the quote “All it takes is a little hardware, a committed staff, and a little creativity.” I think that it would apply to many of the new technologies emerging these days. It is vital to have staff who are enthusiastic and encourage people who are a little 'techie phobic' to give it a go. Our library team are looking at developing some online tutorials - I will point them in the direction of this blog. Now all we need is some hardware.....
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