Week 5 Video on a lower budget

This video provides a contrast to last week's high tech, Danish public children's library. It's a very simple promo for a public library's story hour (and much shorter at only 37 secs). It is really interesting that it places this children's public library in much the same role as those of a century ago, which was a very different social and economic climate. It makes the two important points that even the earliest children's libraries in the 1880's aimed for - its free and it supports children's literacy (Dr. Duck has a special doctor's bag of words).

"Dr. Duck @ Your Library"
by circulating, 8 September 2008, sourced from YouTube

At week five, it is useful to reflect on the limited amount of Australian content I have located. I've researched books, serials, electronic resources including journal articles, photos, websites and videos, and discovered academic journal articles to be the only medium specifically covering early public children's libraries in Australia, and that the remaining material predominantly covers early children's libraries in the United States. The content revealed has been nonetheless interesting and I may just need to tweak my topic to include the United States precursors for Australia's children's public libraries, and possibly the Great Britain precursors. I feel satisfied that I've gathered enough material now and can move on to the analysing and evaluating part of the research process. I still have yet to make the connections about how the United States and Great Britain influenced Australia and why Australia may have lagged behind by several decades in developing its first public children's libraries.