You-Tube

I am very familiar with YouTube.  I have my own YouTube page: though not for uploading videos.  I have one so I can subscribe to other YouTubers.  My favorite YouTubers are John and Hank Green aka The Vlogbrothers.

I think the library can definitely benefit from using YouTube.  Every year the Youth Department makes a video advertising the Summer Reading Club.  This is the perfect kind of thing for the library to upload to YouTube.  We can also make book trailers to highlight books discussed in book discussions or our One Great Read books.  I've also heard of library's posting "talk show" type videos with their teens where they talk about their favorite books, authors, etc.

The video I chose to embed is one that I saw a few months back.  I found it hysterically funny.  It's Librarian's Do Gaga.  Enjoy!

(p.s. be on the lookout for a cameo by super-librarian Nancy Pearl!)

 

Ok, I just have to add a John Green video too because . . .  you know . . . he's awesome.

Virtual Bookshelves

Ok, so this post has been extremely annoying.   I had a lovely longer post written up and somehow deleted the whole thing.  Before I could press "ctrl z" blogger saved the post and I couldn't undo it.  I'm going to try and remember what I said in my original post so here it goes.

I have had a Goodreads account in the past. I mostly used it as an app with my facebook account.  I also had an app with my facebook account called "Visual Bookshelf" which I used more.  I ended up canceling my Goodreads account because I was friends with a few voracious readers and I was getting too many emails and I was not updating it very often.

I also had a LibraryThing account.  I remember hearing about LibraryThing in library school and tried it out.  Actually for this exercise I logged in to see if my account was still active and it was!  I hadn't logged in for about 2 years.  It was kind of neat to log in and see my account from 2007.

I find that Goodreads is more visually appealing to me than LibraryThing but both have their merits.  Some books that I found in Goodreads that I would like to read are:

Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien 
Hereafter by Tara Hudson 
Intrinsical by Lani Woodland
Die for Me by Amy Plum 
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting


I did rejoin Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/ageekylibraria).  It has changed since I was last on it so I think I might stick with it this time. I do like getting book suggestions. I also like making lists.  I make lots of booklists for the Young Adult webpage.  The listopia feature will give me ideas for future lists to make and another source for books to add to those lists. 

I joined two groups: ♥!The Young Adult Book Club!♥ and Never too old for Y.A. Books. I think that goodreads is good for a couple of different reasons.  It can help you stay current on literature and become more familiar with different genres.  I think it could be useful for bookclubs and book discussions, a way to keep in contact with members between meetings.