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ABSTRACT
Students expect flexibility when choosing their classes. Online and blended courses are a common class format now seen in universities and schools worldwide. Another element being used for these online classes is the use of live, synchronous streaming, where students view instructors’ lectures in real time. Live streaming outside of the classroom is becoming more popular and made readily available for consumer use through mobile devices and freely available platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. With their increasingly busy schedules, medical students and professionals typically rely more on online versions of library instruction. Webinars and other virtual meeting platforms have frequently been used to disseminate online instruction in real time and provide chat features which allow instructors to engage with viewers. Libraries have used webinar platforms and can go beyond instruction and integrate live streaming further by broadcasting lectures, events, and other activities students might appreciate “attending.”