Screencasting at Your Library

In this half-day workshop, participants will be introduced to how video is used in libraries today, best practices for video creation, and (free and fee) video software packages. More importantly, this workshop will provide hands-on training using Camtasia Studio (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/), a software package that allows you to create screencasts, edit them into polished video tutorials, and post them on YouTube and other video sharing sites.

Specifically, you will learn to:
•    Capture interactions with a webcam, Web pages, applications, PowerPoint or anything else on your screen, as well as audio from your PC or a microphone and web
•    Create a screen capture of an interaction with a computer program
•    Use the Camtasia plug-in for PowerPoint to record a narrated lecture
•    Import and merge multiple video or audio files into your project
•    Use editing features such as callouts, zoom-n-pan effects, and captioning
•    Produce a video in a number of formats optimized for YouTube, iPod, high-definition playback and the Web.

Dean Hendrix is the Coordinator of Education Services at the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in Buffalo, New York. He provides curricular and research support to over 25 clinical and basic sciences departments. Dean’s research interests center around library assessment issues related to bibliometrics, video services, social networks, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing applications and mobile computing. He has presented on these topics at national conferences. Prior to moving to Buffalo, he was a librarian and assistant professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.