RUSA-MARS PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMITTEE Wiki

is maintained by committee members: Alexandria McEwen (Chair), Paul Keith (virtual member), Margaret Perkins (virtual member) and Anne M Miskewitch (virtual member). Please refer to main MARS website for official committe roosters as well as volunteer forms.

Long to make it easy for your patrons to access your materials? Feel that you aren't reaching all of your online patrons effectively? Try creating your own flash based video tutorials. Below are links to the free software that can be used to set up video tutorials for library services.

Click here to see the list of freeware for creating video tutorials. This page contains a list of software available, the committees comments and comments from other librarians who are using these programs for their patrons.

Clickhere to see a list of commercial software for creating video tutorials. This page contains links to commercial software that is available for a fee, many of these websites include a free trial. It will also include comments for the committee about each entry and examples from public libraries.

Click here to see what flash video tutorials are all about. This page contains links to public libraries as well as academic libraries that are already using this technology to reach a greater patron base.