[Web4lib] Video Tutorials for Teen Patrons

[Elder, James]

Hello,

I thought I'd share with you a project we recently rolled out here at
the Orange County Library System in Orlando, FL. We thought it would be
fun to have video tutorials, aimed at our teen audience, about how to
use some of the features in our catalog and our homepage. So we created
the first in a series of videos to do just that. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrzstc-caE - The first one, "Hip Music.
Hip Library", is about finding your favorite music CD in the catalog. We
were inspired by comics and graphic novels, flavored with a dash of high
school educational films of the 50's.  We plan on having Timmy return
for the remainder of the videos.

 

Let me know what you guys think of this type of approach to helping our
teen patrons. I'd love to get some other libraries' feedback. Thanks!

 

 

James Elder

Web Design Specialist

Orange County Library System

www.ocls.info <http://www.ocls.info> 



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