Podcasts are something that I think could work for public libraries really well. I think that adding and promoting a list of links to podcasts that other organisations have relevance to libraries.
Here at Swan we are planning on having monthly promotional themes, and I think we very quickly and easily add a couple of themed/subject specific podcasts to our catalogue each month. Once again, like other resources, it is not so much libraries producing the resource, only guiding people towards where they can access it.
As the training blog mentioned ABC does podcasts/vodcasts really really well. In the past I have downloaded quite a few from the science/environment pages and Triple J, especially a lot of their Live at the Wireless live music sets. You can find their pod/vodcasts and live stream at http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/live/podcast/.
That's a better way of using Podcasts, directing users to them rather than library staff have a stab at it! I'm sure anything we made would be highly entertaining but for all the wrong reasons :)
ReplyDeleteI have already called dibs on not doing them. I don't care what Mark says.
ReplyDeleteWe podcast a talk on genealogy given here at Cockburn Library. This topic is of interest to many of our patrons so hoping they will refer to it when undertaking their family search
ReplyDeleteI love the Tripple J podcasts too. The Live Music and Unearthed is great value!
ReplyDeleteSo this really is an issue -- do we actually produce the material that is podcast or do we try to get content to podcast? Can we do both?
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