Podcasting

Enjoyed visiting the sites this week and seeing the different uses for podcasting in libraries, but was a little disappointed overall. I'm not sure we, as a public library could warrant broadcasting in this way. I believe most of the information we would want to get out on the web would be better off in a written or video format.

Although I like the idea of children's stories being available through podcast, I'm doubtful they would get a great deal of use. The audio books for children these days are so good, I think a librarian's reading (well great in the flesh) would leave most kids unimpressed.

Of course it would be different for a specialised library, as podcasting would be great for lectures, talks and forums.

I was able to listen to a few of the British Library podcasts and of course the ABC, which I have enjoyed for awhile now. If ever I miss something on the radio that I wanted to hear, I can always go on line and listen to the podcast. Great! I decided to add a RSS feed for the Book Show to my Blog, as you can see.

I was unable to listen to any of the others sites though, because you needed ipod, and I could not load the software onto our work computer. I'm sure there are others out there with the same problem. Work computers are proving to be a small but annoying hindrance during this course.