From SELCOtv to the Library Variety Hour: Using streaming media for collaboration, communication, continuing education and outreach

From SELCOtv to the Library Variety Hour: Using streaming media for collaboration, communication, continuing education and outreach

Streaming content over the Internet is a practical and affordable way for libraries to share content with their various user communities. This fun and interactive session will highlight two specific library projects. SELCOtv started its life as a video podcast to provide training, meeting videos, and library programs to library staff in the SELCO region. Four years and more than 300 episodes later, its focus has shifted to be more series driven. SELCO staff talk will about the three series they launched in 2012: “SELCO TechCast” which looks at a variety of technology topics, “Horizon: Behind the Screens,” which gives tips, insights and other information on things relating to their ILS, and their newest series “What is…” which is a very brief video podcast that defines terms. SELCO staff will go into the whys, hows and wherefores of producing their streaming media content. Macalester College Library staff will talk about what happens when you take librarians out of the library and stick them in a radio booth. They’ve been hosting a weekly show on the college’s radio station and streaming the content on the web. They will share how this form of library outreach has brought the library out beyond its walls and onto the airwaves. Bonus: There will be music.