Method 6

Method 6

The YouTube video on the New York Public Library is an excellent video. It brings out information about the library and all that it has to offer [http://www.youtube.com/user/NewYorkPublicLibrary] to individuals, young and old, who come through it's doors. It is difficult to compare the relatively small library I work at, the Amarillo Public Library, to the huge New York Public Library, with all that it contains. My library is like a microcosm of what the NYPL is. But the YouTube video brought to my mind the realization that even if we cannot offer to our patrons all that the New York Public can offer, the Amarillo Public Library, and indeed all public libraries to some extent, can offer to our patrons the same types of services that the NYPL offers to it's patrons on a larger scale. We can offer reference and research services, books to children and adults, a variety of programs that meets the needs and desires of different groups of people, genealogy services, and many other library related services, programs and events. And while, most other public libraries throughout the nation, (probably all actually) cannot offer the incredible research and reference sources that the NYPL has, nearly every public library across the United States probably has some unique reference source, unique to that library, that cannot be found in the New York Public Library, or in any other library. What I mainly got out of the video was that we must work with what we have, and offer our patrons the same enthusiastic and caring services that the librarians and staff of the New York Public Library offer, as is shown in their YouTube video.

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