Bandwidth Hogs

I haven't really used YouTube or Google Video precisely because they are bandwidth hogs. At home, my poor dial-up connection hiccups through the videos -- a few seconds of video followed by a long pause, followed by a few seconds of video, followed by a long pause, etc.

Despite that, here is a cute video on Minnesota History Day:



And for those of you out there who have never seen it, the "cult classic" Conan the Librarian:



How would we use YouTube videos (or some other site) on the MHS Library website? Good question. That's one I'm going to have to ponder, and take to our Library 2.0 Committee to see if others have any thoughts on it. There are possibilities out there: a search of "Minnesota history" on YouTube turned up 370 videos, although quite a few of them seem to have copyright issues. I really hate to encourage that sort of thing by linking to those videos and thereby validating their questionable use of copyrighted material.