Libraries On YouTube

I concentrated on videos resulting from a search of "library event", which brought up 3,370 results. One was a promotional video for a fundraiser involving Chef Martin Yan, urging people to buy tickets as proceeds benefited the library. Another was a video of a past event at a public library, involving a knitting group and a visit by the Guinness world record holder for speed knitting. Then I went to the videos showing gaming events at various libraries. These were decidedly very boring - no voice over, and some were several minutes of just a shot of Guitar Hero on a TV screen. I think the only people that visited those were the kids who had participated, just to see if they could spot themselves.

There's potential here for promotion of library events, promotion of the library as a place that has a diverse offering of presentations, concerts, etc.. There are many people that might come to see the library as a great place to visit as a result. I think a library could make a video, post it on YouTube, but also post it on their library site. There's lot of people that don't visit YouTube, so you would need to do both. I wonder to myself how libraries have handled getting permission from all of the people visible in a video to include them without "fuzzying" their face. When people arrive at an event, do they automatically receive a permission form, and how does a library identify those on a video that perhaps did not or would not give permission to have their faces shown? Posting on YouTube, after all, is a forum for world-wide exposure, and some people might not want that. I would be interested to hear how other libraries have handled this.