You can do it just using your mobile phone. Or you can use sophisticated editing software to develop a clip complete with screen effects, music and narration. Either way - it's easy to share your videos with the world now, thanks to sites such as YouTube and Google Video.
For a library servicing an isolated and geographically scattered community such as ours at Talbingo, such technology has wonderful potential. For older people or those with vision impairments - or those people who, like me, hate reading off a screen - video makes information delivery more accessible. Our library shares a building with the local school and the young students are keen to learn to use our services for information gathering. But we aren't open every day! Educational videos posted online allow students to access relevant content on library services any time, day or night.
But video sharing has its sinister side too. Once it's online, it's hard to erase - and hard to stop the wrong people from viewing it. And the boffins have still to find a foolproof method to protect copyright and intellectual property - it's still so easy to steal someone else's work and post it as part of your own.
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