YouTube is amazingly useful if approached the right way. I'd long struggled to play proper A-shaped bar chords on the guitar, clearing the high E-string. I never managed to master it until I found a YouTube clip earlier this year, showing me just where to bend my finger in the right place. The key here was searching for the right terms. Wow, what a brilliant teaching device!
Anyway, getting back to libraries, the same is true. There is a wealth of information. Everything from televised user education classes and Powerpoints, to fully-fledged 70 minute filmed presentations/discussions such as the University of California at Berkley's Building Academic Library 2.0. Actually, this kind of thing can run in the background as a Podcast pretty well, but the visuals do help.
I think YouTube works best for short and direct films, such as music clips and advertisement-like quick pieces, or short speeches with images. Libraries are definitely a big presence, so more dedicated and imaginative film-makers in our ranks could make this a very powerful means of communication.
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