Back in the day (midnineties), Mr. Khan would drive his Geo Metro to Boston to see Baby Ray, or Bettie Serveert or Mary Lou Lord, or hop SWA at BWI to see Kathy Mattea in Nashville. He'd see friends, swap stories, an' maybe some friends would give him concert AVI files which he'd put on his webpage (by storing them on his CUA VAX account in a folder that allowed sharing with the ftp protocol). Those files moved to a commerical account when CUA was done, and all was well, until someone at the ISP company decided to start charging for storage. A bill for $180 (three months) followed. Bye bye, avi's.
Now, YouTube makes that all better. YouTube stores your videos for you, and in exchange you just have to be willing for the world to see them. Which is the kinda the point all along, really. It's super. And it gives businesses and public institutions a platform for getting content out there in video form like never before.
The question is probably not "What can libraries (in general, or specific) do with YouTube?" It's probably "What could libraries have done with YouTube, for two or three years?" One thing is for sure, spending time regretting that we didn't get on the bus more quickly isn't going to move us. But getting on the bus, now? Then we are rolling.
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