Multimedia forms of library information on the Internet

Abstract

The article is dedicated to modern forms of library information available on the Internet, in particular on the biggest and the most popular video streaming service – YouTube. The text is an attempt at these forms typology; they will be profiled with regard to their three functions: informative, propagandistic and educational; as well as to a type of statement forms. The analysis provided of the content on YouTube, looking for the presence of library information multimedia forms, permitted to determine five most popular types of multimedia library information. In the introductory part the definition of the multimedia and of multimedia library information development will be discussed.