Week 7, Part B – EAHIL has great galla dinners!
Week 7, Part B – EAHIL has great gala dinners – or what I learned on YouTube
The second part of Week 7’s assignment was to explore YouTube, find a library that was using YouTube, find a video that I like, and share it on my blog.
Using YouTube was relatively easy, considering my dial-up connection. I searched for “medical libraries” and found about 200 listings, many of which celebrated library week or provided library instruction.
My favorite video, however, was the first one on my list of results:
Sirtaki at EAHIL Gala Dinner in CLuj. Medical Librarians dancing till climax ……Sirtaki EAHIL EAHIL2006 Gala Dinner CLuj medical libraries
Added: September 28, 2006
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) is an active professional association uniting and motivating librarians and information officers working in medical and health science libraries in Europe. EAHIL encourages professional development, improves cooperation and enables exchanges of experience amongst its members. The association counts about 1 000 members from about 30 European countries.
The program for the 10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania September 11-16, 2006, is found here:
http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/scientific_programme.html
The Gala Dinner at Hotel Belvedere was held 1900-2400 on September 15.
The conference has a photogallery: http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/registration.html, but no photographs from the Gala Dinner are on the site. You can recognize librarians from the video in some of the photographs, however.
I enjoyed my YouTube experience. If the site were ever unblocked in our library, we could develop some fun programs. For instance, we always wanted to have a library training program with Peeps. Our oral history programs are video, so perhaps some of those could be shared.
