Library of Congress YouTube Channel

The Library of Congress has started to find ways to share their collections online. Previously, they started sharing pictures from their collection on Flickr.com (see previous blog post). Now they are sharing videos using the YouTube.com site. The Library of congress plans to continue adding to this collection. Currently, the categories of videos include:

• the Earliest films by Thomas Edison
• Westinghouse "Industrial" films from 1904
• "Journeys and Crossings" (curator presentations of the some of the most interesting and significant Library of Congress materials)
• Author presentations - from the 2008 National Book Festival and the "Books and Beyond" author series

Here is a curator presentation on "Rosie the Riveter" from World War II:




The Library of Congress has even more videos on their own site. Their "American Memory Collection" has many different movies available - from videos of San Francisco before and after the earthquake and fire of 1906, to 61 motion pictures showing vaudeville performances, to films of the Spanish American War.

Youtube is not just for teens!

Youtube is a website which hosts videos created by anyone. It is most known for humor and music videos that teens upload to the site. However, there are older adults who use Youtube to share their information with the world. For example, Olive Riley was known as the world's oldest blogger at 108 years old. She used videos for her "Life of Riley" blog. She passed away last July.

Here is one of Olive Riley's videos:

Clara Cannucciari is a video blogger is who is in her nineties. She has a series of videos on Youtube about Great Depression Cooking. In her videos, she not only shows how to cook frugal depression food, she also tells stories about what it was like to live through the great depression.

Here is one of Clara Cannucciari's videos: