Arizona State University 'Library Minute' Videos

I had a look at 5 videos from Arizona State University‘s ‘Library Minute’ presented by Anali Perry. Over all they were entertaining and very informative. It's clear that ASU is attempting to communicate with students in a more informal way. ASU describes these as 'one minute peeks into services and resources at the ASU Libraries. At the time of this post there were 27 Library Minutes which have been viewed many times. The most popular of the series is the 'RefWorks' video which has been viewed 3,325 times.

· The 5 videos I watched were

• · Mobile web
• · Top 5 resources for online students
• · Meet your subject librarian
• · Academic articles
• · RefWorks (a citation manager for students)

The Library also has a 'Library Channel' on the university web site. This blog has links to the Library's iTunes page, Flickr page, Twitter feed and also links to previously mentioned videos. The Twitter feed communicates news from the Library answers student's questions and the Flickr photostream primarily contains photos from Library events

But do these satisfy the 4 C's of social media as set out in the class reading?

• · Collaboration- The Library Channel on You Tube includes videos made by other organizations and ASU students (see the Silent Dance video)
• · Conversation-The Twitter feed is definitely a two way conversation between staff and students
  
• · Community-The videos on You Tube invite students to be a part of the library community with their friendly tone
  
• · Content Creation- All of the sources I viewed (You Tube, Twitter, Library Blog and Flickr) contained content that could be helpful to students, staff and other libraries.
  

In conclusion, ASU library has embraced web 2.0 technologies in an effort to communicate with and received communications from students and staff. In this respect I find their efforts to be a success.