[Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Welcome to the Library videos

[Katie Anderson]

Hello!  Some of you have been asking for general welcome to the public library videos.  Here is what I found:

Multnomah County Library general library promotion video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7uexIzotQ
Video Description: Produced by The Library Foundation (Portland, Oregon),this video celebrates the wide-ranging ways that Multnomah County Library is promoting literacy in the community. Multnomah County Library circulates more books than any public library its size in the US! 
Katie's Opinion:  Set to music, no narration so would work for people who speak any language.  This takes place in several different branches and focuses on the materials, people, and activities NOT a tour of a specific library. It shows storytimes, orchestra storytimes, kids on computers, senior workshops, summer reading, and all sorts of wonderful enriching things people can do at libraries. Great for showing that libraries have much more to offer than books, babies and toddlers are welcome, that it is an active social place NOT quiet and scholarly.

Welcome to an American Public Library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPzJoQb9D4A
Video Description: This enjoyable introduction to the American public library is designed for an international community and specifically for adult learners of English. It features seven language translations of key words and English subtitles. 
Katie's Opinion:  Very generic, not specific to one library. only features checking out materials and using computers, not storytimes and other programs.  The narrator speaks really slow and articulate, possibly good for English Language Learners, but fluent English speakers probably won't like it.

Multnomah County Library multilingual videos
http://www.multcolib.org/news/2009/videos.html
These videos are in Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, and Chinese with English sub-titles.  They are specific to Multnomah County Library.  However, if you watch it with a family you could probably talk about the things they cover that are similar in all libraries.  This would give them an excellent idea about what libraries have to offer and how they work--you'd just need to have a conversation about it so they don't expect their local library to be the same as the one in the video

Just for fun: Corvallis Public Library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmacACtJgA
This is a video that the teen group from Corvallis Public Library put together.  I love it!  It may be great to show some of the teen parents you work with or just enjoy yourself.  If you share it with others you may need to remind them that scooters aren't really allowed in libraries, the teens had permission and were working with staff to make this video. They cover 


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528
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