This is less of a buffet and more of a sampler plate, for y’all who are curious about how libraries are already using YouTube. I tried to find videos from a variety of institutions in size and type, as well as a variety of video types, but there are a ton more out there… Which I will hope to tackle with the 2nd phase of this project: the Librarian’s YouTube Toolkit. Check out next week’s post for details!
As a follow-up to the previous post, this one’s a list of different genres on YouTube, a bit of a description, and links to example channels that generally fall into that category to give you an idea of how they play out. Note that many channels might fall into multiple genres, and also that this list is by no means exhaustive.
BookTube
People talking about books, typically in a very vloggy format. Reviews, book love exuberance, “what I’ve been reading,” etc…
Libraries have things in all kinds of shapes and formats, and generally these things are acquired according to some kind of policy. For ease (as I just finished my course on Collection Management this summer), here’s a definition by Peggy Johnson in “Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management”:
Collection development: Originally denoted activities involved in developing a library collection in response to institutional priorities and user needs and interests— that is, the selection of materials to build a collection. Collection development was understood to cover several activities related to the development of library collections, including selection, determination and coordination of policies, needs assessment, collection use studies, collection analysis, budget management, community and user outreach and liaison, and planning for resource sharing.