Archive for the 'YouTube' Category
Who Wants to be a Librarian?
December 2nd, 2009Google seeks to turn a profit from YouTube copyright clashes
November 1st, 2009Telegraph – “Group is working to persuade music and video companies to cash in rather than clamp down when their content is uploaded”
Anne Frank channel launched on YouTube
September 30th, 2009Telegraph – “The site contains existing and new images, including the only known video footage of Anne – a shot a few seconds-long of her leaning out of an upstairs window during the wedding of a neighbour in July 1941.”
Direct to the site
Related – Tracing the Many Lives of Anne Frank and Her Still-Vivid Wartime [...]
The Florida Bar is Looking up Your YouTube Videos
September 7th, 2009Out of the Jungle – “If you are applying for admission to the Florida Bar, you had better clean up your social networking sites. “
Brigham Young University Lifts YouTube Ban After 3 Years
June 28th, 2009AP – “Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said. YouTube has its own filters for porn, but BYU added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was [...]
National Archives Launches YouTube Channel
June 20th, 2009Press Release – "On Friday, June 19, the National Archives will formally launch a YouTube channel to showcase popular archived films, inform the public about upcoming events around the country, and bring National Archives exhibits to the people. The launch will coincide with the National Archives 75th Anniversary.
Direct to Site
Library Of Congress Films Now Appearing On YouTube
April 24th, 2009NPR – “By now most people are aware of the joint venture between the Library of Congress and Flickr to post and promote photographs long cloistered within the LOC's stacks. But did you know about the new initiative between LOC and YouTube?”
Direct to YouTube/LOC Page
Court Orders Removal of Deposition From YouTube
December 9th, 2008Legal Blog Watch – “Depositions are a matter of public record, and as such, most lawyers never think to shield videotaped deposition testimony from public disclosure except in cases involving highly sensitive or proprietary information. After all, up until a few years ago, even if someone wanted to disseminate inflammatory or embarrassing deposition video, there [...]
Guns Don’t Kill People….
December 5th, 2008YouTube Ventures Into Live Event Webcasting
November 12th, 2008NYTimes.com – "YouTube will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site’s popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos."
Feature films coming to YouTube
November 6th, 2008CNET News – “YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company.”
YouLibrary
January 13th, 2008TCOHE – “Would a YouTube Video Create Buzz Around Your Library?”
I’m Too Sexy For The Wiggles
January 9th, 2008Barbie just sent this to me. Hilarious.
MSU Library YouTube Contest
October 12th, 2007Jason A. Clark – “Win an iPod Nano and other fabulous prizes when you submit a 3 to 5 minute film, telling us how you use the library in your studies.”
Happy New Year JewTube
September 14th, 2007Google is looking to protect the YouTube Trademark.
Protecting Kids?
August 1st, 2007BBC – “Teachers have called for websites such as YouTube to be shut down as part of efforts to prevent pupils and staff being bullied.” (via)
Super Librarian
June 10th, 2007The AP has a piece on the popular Super Librarian YouTube video.
Library Ninja
February 24th, 2007Steven Reed, a Library Media Specialist from Wilmington High School, sent in this video that his students made. Cute.
