I started out a bit intimidated by the idea of accosting random students and asking them to appear in a video forthe web, but it turned out to be straightforward and I got a really positive response.<\/p>\n
Mostly I set up in the library foyers – I had my laptop and microphone on a booktrolley so could record then and there. I generally ignored students on their way out (likely rushing to a lecture) in favour of those coming in. I didn’t have any tangibe bribes, but did want to ‘offer’ something, so generally started with “Hi, have you seen the video on the library homepage?” Then I could show them where to find it and, while they were watching a bit of it, explain what was going on and ask them if they’d help out.<\/p>\n
To my surprise, about 1 in 3 agreed. This varied by branch: at one branch it was more like 1 in 10. At some branches, the librarians introduced me to likely candidates. But even approaching people at random, I could typically record half a dozen volunteers in not much more than half an hour.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
What did they say? Responses fell fairly evenly among the old triumvirate:<\/p>\n
Place<\/b>: a warm place (it’s currently winter in NZ), a quiet place. (Best new motto we’ll never use: The Library: There’s no-one around<\/i>.) A place to study, essentially, though one or two mentioned hanging out with friends.<\/p>\n
People<\/b>: they see librarians as friendly and helpful – one made a point of saying that (contrary to expectations, one infers) the librarians aren’t<\/i> intimidating or scary.<\/p>\n
Resources<\/b>:<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n A couple of days after the second video went up, a colleague asked for a transcript so she’d know what people were saying. This reminded me I’d been interested in the possibilities dotSub<\/a> provides. I got permission to put the videos up there as well<\/a>. It was dead simple to transfer the videos across from YouTube, and the interface is incredibly user-friendly, so (as I already had the transcripts from when I’d been editing the videos) it took me less than two hours to create the subtitles for both videos – that’s less than 20 minutes per minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started out a bit intimidated by the idea of accosting random students and asking them to appear in a video forthe web, but it turned out to be straightforward and I got a really positive response. Mostly I set up in the library foyers – I had my laptop and microphone on a booktrolley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[209,208,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n