INSTANT ACCESS:USING TECHNOLOGY TO BRIDGE THE ACCESS GAP AT THE LIBRARY

Nadia Lalla, Anne Perorazio, Carol ShannonTaubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan

Midwest MLA Annual Meeting 9 October 2011

Mandate

•Find existing resources on campus for webinars

•Find other tools & resources for online tutorials

•Second Life and Public Health

First: Survey of campus resources

• Facilities• People

Survey of other resources

AND: Survey of other resources

We discovered

• Screencasting programs (various)

• Videos good & bad

• Spaces

• People

First Steps• Screencasting programs

• Jing to answer simple reference questions• Camtasia for more finished projects

• Other equipment• Samson C01U Podcasting pak & pop filter• Headset with microphone

• Initial Camtasia training @ School of Public Health

Jing videos

• 5 minute limit, can’t be edited• Used to answer reference questions• Videos created by School of Information students

• How to find an Author’s h-index

Camtasia videos• Video editing capabilities• Longer video• Better audio• Smaller file size• Easier to use• My NCBI, pt. 1

Plan!

• Know your purpose and audience

• Length

• Materials

• Format—16:9

• Script

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Who will make your videos?

• Permanent staff• High quality• But not enough time

• Students• Need to be trained• Limited time• Quality?• Now, hired a student with video background

Storage• Computer hard drive

• Share space • YouTube

• Screencast.com

• Other options

Where are OUR videos?

Statistics

Contact us!

http://guides.lib.umich.edu/videotutorials