[Web4lib] YouTube and Bandwith

[Pat Rapp]

Maybe your IT department would allow access to Jove, if not youtube. It's
like youtube, but for the medical/scientific community.

"Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, open access,
online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video
format."

http://www.jove.com/


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Pat Rapp
Fairport Public Library
prapp at libraryweb.org
585-223-3648 ext. 28
http://www.fairportlibrary.org/
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kraft, Michelle
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Mary Hartman; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] YouTube and Bandwith

A lot of hospital libraries and a growing number of academic medical
libraries are blocking a lot of social networking sites in addition to
YouTube. Our IT department has actually gone a step further and blocks all
multimedia on the Internet, unless it has a valid medical or education
application.  Specific online medical sites with multimedia are not blocked
and we are allowed to download/view them.  But there is no way they will
un-block a site like YouTube even if we found (from home since I can't do it
at work) a good medical video.  

Michelle
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Michelle Kraft, MLS, AHIP
Senior Medical Librarian
Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library
9500 Euclid Ave. NA30
Cleveland, OH 44195
216-445-7338

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Whitford
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:41 AM
To: Mary Hartman; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] YouTube and Bandwith

Three of the libraries we support have blocked YouTube, social networking
sites, and streaming video sites due to bandwidth concerns (and to be
honest, some content concerns). Bandwidth use did initially drop but within
60 days it was back to its formal levels. 


Phillip B. Whitford
Associate Director for Support Services
Braswell Memorial Library
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my organization. 
-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mary Hartman
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:24 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] YouTube and Bandwith


Are there any libraries that have blocked the use of YouTube in their
libraries because it uses so much bandwith?  Have there been any
repercussions?  
 
Mary
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