Typed University Of Queensland into the search box. As I did this it struck me that what you retreive, as with many of the Web 2.0 applications, is dependent on tags that have been assigned to the document, be it images, blogs etc. Of course this is not an exact science.
Having been used to a Library Classification system which organizes subjects in a prescriptive way and enables consistent assigning of key words, searching for resources in Web 2.0 seems haphazard.
One of the first of many results in YouTube was an advert for the University of Queensland, which was quite impressive. It did not contain much if any information, just alot of images. But I guess putting across information may have not been the aim.
The quality of videos on Youtube, Yahoo videos and Google Videos varied of course. I looked at a number of vidoes on Information Skills and the more effective ones were the professionally produced videos.
As to applications to a library environment, libraries could post videos on evaluating the world wide web, library tours, demonstrations on how to use the catalogue, films of meetings, and information skills. I am still not sure of the difference between recording a meeting and putting it on YouTube or posting a Pod cast of the same meeting, but maybe the next task on 23 things will make that distinction clear.
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