Last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released two videos on YouTube, “Libraries: More Than Books” and “Libraries: Changing Lives, Transforming Communities”. They were the first in a series of videos that the Gates Foundation was creating to show how digital services in libraries are transforming lives.
Now all of the videos are available on the Gates Foundation’s YouTube channel in a playlist called
Libraries: Narrowing the Digital Divide.
The videos cover a range of topics: job searching, empowering seniors, serving immigrants, searching for health information. Library staff and patrons tell the stories of how the technology available at the library has helped them.
You can use these videos to promote these same services at your library or to advocate for adding new services. Maybe they will inspire you to make your own videos, with your patrons and staff sharing how your library has improved their lives. Take a look!
