The whole Embed into HTML escaped me, even after several tries. I finally got a Mr. Bean at the Library embedded at the bottom of the page. It's time to move on to the "how would I use this in a library setting" part of the question.
The Holocaust video sample came from a patron this week who was very knowledgeable about computers and very heavily loaded down with Holocaust material by the time we were finished searching. The YouTube pieces about her area of study (ranging from 1.5 minutes to 10+ minutes) might prove very intriguing to her in light of her recent research.
The music videos were fun -- snippets of memories purely for pleasure.
The range of possibilities for viewing myriads of subjects seemed to be extensive.
Much of the YouTube phenomenon appears to me to have burgeoned out of the same soil as MySpace and others -- rapid-fire, homemade, self-serving attempts to connect with the world;
some educational, some enduring, some entertaining, some disturbing.
This puts the library as a center-for-the-community page once again as an offering of both the traditional and the new. Books about the tragedy of the USS Indianapolis accompanied by videos online.
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