Higher Ed videos on YouTube

CARL North IT board member Jackie Siminitus saw this Campus Technology item:

You Tube EDU aggregates video from colleges and universities.

"The launch was made quietly this past week, but with contributions from Dartmouth, Stanford, University of Minnesota, UNC Chapel Hill, Purdue, Harvard, VirginiaTech, and more than 100 others, the site stands a chance to get attention easily. There are already more than 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU. Content is varied, ranging from lectures on quantum physics to "Snow Day in Chapel Hill." With no plans for indexing the videos with a controlled vocabulary (confirmed by Obadiah Greenberg of the Strategic Partnerships team at YouTube) it's starting out eclectic but browsable--typical YouTube."

Authors@Google

Google is making available videotaped sessions of its author talks. Guests have included Hillary Clinton, Eve Ensler and Neil Gaiman. Here's a direct link to the author series on YouTube.

OCLC Symposium on YouTube on Social Networking

A three-minute video summarizing the OCLC Symposium at ALA
Midwinter, Who’s Watching YOUR Space, has been posted to
YouTube. More than 400 attended the symposium, a discussion
about social networking practices and trends.

March of the Librarians

Take a look at March of the Librarians, a video of ALA Midwinter participants available on YouTube. Great spin of March of the Penguins. It's mentioned in this blog because CARL members can be spotted in the video and also because it's another fine example of libraries and librarians using Web 2.0 or Library 2.0 software.

Perhaps someone will submit it to the first InfoTubey Awards at the Computer in Libraries 2007 conference. The nomination form is already online.