Learn to dance! Sure, why not? There’s more to summer than school!
The University Library has videos that can help.
Latin dancing for beginners (1st-floor Media Center Video Collection, GV1751 .L44 1997) covers all the good stuff (five basic steps for meringue, paso doble, tango, bolero and mambo with tips on leading and following) in 45 minutes!
If you fall in love with one dance more than the others, search for just that dance in the Library Catalog, e.g., search for “tango dance?” and videorecording and you’ll get a list of videos, most of which are all about tango, including one simply called Tango (1st-floor Media Center Video Collection, GV1796.T3 T3 1997).
There are also videos on YouTube, including the one below (lesson no. 1 of 20):
Ever post a video to YouTube? Ever embed a YouTube video in your blog or webpage? Have you ever viewed a YouTube video that may have come from a movie or television show protected under copyright?
Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, has been pursuing a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and its parent, Google, since March 2007. An issue is whether YouTube is protected by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
On July 1st 2008, Judge Louis Stanton (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York) ordered Google to release data including copies of all videos that were once available for public viewing on YouTube.com but later removed and the “logging” database that contains information about each instance when a video is watched, either through YouTube or through embedding on another site. The logging database includes data such as usernames of YouTube viewers and users’ computer IP addresses.
UWW students and staff can read this latest decision in the legal research database LexisNexis Academic (search for 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50614).
Further information can be found in magazine, law review, and newspaper articles. For example, search ProQuest Newsstand Complete to find related New York Times articles such as “Google Told To Turn Over User Data Of YouTube” in the (July 4th, p.C1) and “Google Takes Step on Video Copyrights” (Oct 16, 2007, p.C7).
Here, for your Friday enjoyment, a music video in honor of the noble librarian…thank goodness for YouTube!
Do you “publish” on the Web, or are you a lurker? User-created content on the Internet is extremely popular–what effects might it have on journalism? advertising? social relationships? politics? and more…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reports, based on data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, that “over one-third of all US Internet users have posted content to the Internet” and 25% of Internet users under the age of 30 have blogs.
The 2007 report lists YouTube as the fourth most-popular web site worldwide, while a more recent visit to the source of this information, Alexa.com, finds it moved up to number two (the ranking is updated daily). Other web sites of user-created content in the top 10 globally are MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, and Wikipedia.
The full report, Participative web and user-created content: web 2.0, wikis and social networking, is available online. It discusses the types of user-created content, active Internet participation in several countries, possible economic and social impacts and implications for policy and business.
The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!
Ahh, the joys of copyright. We deal with it everyday, whether you utilize e-reserves or download music to your iPod (hopefully in a legal fashion). But did it ever cross your mind that when you laughed at the Dramatic Prairie Dog for the millionth time (or one of the many remixes) that the creator of the videos may have violated the law by using copyrighted material? I know I didn’t think about it.
According to a report from American University’s Center for Social Media, parodies of copyrighted works may actually fall under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. The full report, entitled Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, features the work of communications professor Pat Aufderheide and law professor Peter Jaszi - they contend that the new works and their ability to stimulate dialogue afford them protection under fair use. What do you think?
original story from the Chronicle of Higher Ed
link to full report from the Center for Social Media
Thanks to Joyce for the link!
If you’re writing a paper about viral marketing (what’s that?), you’re probably going to talk about YouTube and its fantastic ability to share video with people all over the world. The problem is citing any videos that you would like to include in your paper. It doesn’t fit the nice, predefined examples put forth by MLA or APA.
Fortunately, you no longer have to make up your own style for this citation if you’re using APA style. According to the association, citations for YouTube videos (and other internet videos) combine the website and video format. So for instance, if you really like the library workout video and would like to incorporate it into a paper on workplace athletics, you would cite it as the following:
Betty Glover Library Workout Tape Ad [Video]. (1987). Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8BKX2eQ0Q.
And just in case you missed it the first two times, third time’s a charm:
Thanks Ronna for sharing this information!
Back in June, Barb posted a video from the “I Love My Library” Contest, sponsored by Gale (link to original post), which featured a woman that resembled our very own Kelly dancing around the library. Sadly, that video didn’t win. The video below won the contest with their reworking of the Da Vinci Code. The Main Street Library and Dozier Middle School (Newport News, VA) took the grand prize with their video entitled “The Library Code” - check it out below.
For the other video submissions, take a look at the YouTube group LIBRAREO.
Apparently there has been a nationwide “I Love My Library!” video contest, complete with cash prizes. The entries have been posted to YouTube. This little gem was not one of the top five, but you’ve got to feel good watching someone love what they do so much. Enjoy this Friday pick-me-up (you might need your dancing shoes)!
To save you some time if you were searching for the video mentioned in Joyce’s all-campus e-mail, I’ve decided to post the video again.
link to the original post
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Time for your weekly dose of library-related Youtube videos. This one demonstrates that computers and all of our modern “conveniences” isn’t the first time that humans struggled with technology. Thanks to Dianne for the video submission!
