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hello and welcome to RIT's Level Up Virtual series of various workshops and topics that we
hope will be helpful to you. So today I'm going to show you how to access the RIT
libraries' own YouTube channel. We've populated our YouTube channel with a myriad of helpful,
brief library videos about resources, about tools, so on and so forth. So we'll just have a little
show and tell about the RIT libraries' YouTube channel. So I'm going to start off by sharing my
screen and just remind you that there's two different ways to get to the libraries' own
YouTube channel. You could simply go to the YouTube homepage right here.
Type in RIT libraries--if you don't get distracted by what YouTube's showing you! I do! I
end up going down the rabbit hole with videos... So I'm going to click that and you'll see that
there are some videos listed down here but the main YouTube channel will be the top one listed.
So if you open that up, then there you go! Oh, there's a video playing of the beginning of
the construction, it looks a lot different now, that building is really coming along!
Also, or rather, you could go to the library's homepage: library.rit.edu
And if you've never been to the homepage before you'll always see at the top,
ready and waiting for you to do your research, but if you scroll down you'll see that there
are plenty of other tidbits of information for you: our current exhibits, different events,
some interesting news items about what's going on at RIT and at the RIT libraries and then down here
you'll see those familiar icons for the various social media platforms in which RIT libraries
has a presence. So, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and, of course, YouTube. So if you click on the
YouTube icon you'll be taken directly to the RIT libraries' channel. I'll close this one up... So
the channels are generally set up the same way. The home tab for users--or a platform's
home page will be a variety of different videos that you can find within the channel
and you'll see that we have them grouped here by playlists. And all the videos,
that you can scroll through, are shown simply by clicking on the videos tab
and all of these level up mini workshops can be viewed here.
If you go to the playlists you'll see that we have a variety of videos suggested to
you and here you'll see the topics and you'll see how many videos there are.
And then some other categories are here:
Database and Research Strategies... remember to note that if you see this
little arrow over here you can see a further deck of the different videos that we have...
Academic Publishing and Citations,
some helpful videos to do with American Sign Language,
and some fun videos having to do with our annual or bi-annual
(this comes at the end of every semester) our De-Stress Fest different activities.
So let's open up one of these
playlists. Here: simply how to use the library.
I'm going to open that up--of course there are some ads,
we'll skip that,
and you'll see a description of the video below.
You can see that the length of the video (this one's a very brief one) and every video
that is made by the RIT libraries folks is always closed captioned.
When
you go to a YouTube channel you see this subscribe button.
But you'll also--let's go to the home page--
so if you subscribe here,
you will now be automatically subscribed to this channel. But this little bell now appears
and this is really nice because it is the notification icon.
If you sign up for notifications you will get a pop-up on your screen saying that RIT
libraries has uploaded a new video, so you won't miss any new content that's uploaded.
So, pretty much in a nutshell, this is the RIT libraries' YouTube video library.
I'll stop my share. So remember: you can find the YouTube icon at the bottom of the library's
website homepage-- library.rit.edu-- and you can also simply google YouTube, go to the home
page of YouTube, and search "RIT libraries." So have fun viewing these very helpful, enjoyable
videos and we'll see you around! Take care, good luck, and don't forget: if you ever need to speak
to a librarian, go to our home page and under "Research Help," click on "Meet Your Librarian,"
and choose one of us! Thanks so much, have a great day! Bye!
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