Podcasts and Audio

OCLS Podcasts: I chose the podcast on Big Read's presentation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." The video featured four people of different ages and gender talking about how much they or a member of their family love this book. It also mentioned all activities connected with this event, such as a question/answer portion, book review, dramatic reading, book discussion and the screening of the movie itself. All these were to take place (and did take place) at the Orlando Public Library in March 2008.

LibVibe: Wow, you can listen to an eight or nine-minute newscast anytime. And the news are quite interesting!

Denver Public Library: I sampled the following podcasts - Beatrix Potter books, nursery rhymes, storytime favourites and interviews (Harry and the Potters).

British Library: From their 2007 Podcasts archive, I chose "Saving St
Catherine's Monastery Library." The audio itself was titled "Preserving Mt Sinai's Library." The talk was given by Nicholas Pickwood at the British Library on 4 September 2007. This Greek Orthodox Monastery was situated at the foot of Mt Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments. And their library houses the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus.

ABC: Subject options included Arts & Entertainment, Community & Lifestyles, Education, Health, Kids, News & Analysis, Religion, Science and Sport. Immediately following Podcasting is Video Podcasting. I clicked this one and was rewarded by several online videos. But the one I chose to watch was "The Chaser's War on Everything Online : If life were a musical."

Library Success Wiki: I checked out all the public libraries listed in this wiki and discovered a common denomination for most of them, which is that they provide teen webcasts and podcasts for children's stories and nursery rhymes. Others include book reviews, poetry reading, author talks, information and entertainment, interviews with interesting people and library news. Surely, in time our library can offer the same sort of podcasts to our customers as well as to our colleagues in the library profession.

Online Education Database: I listened to "Historical Jesus" (Stanford) and "Time, money and love in the age of technology" (UC Berkeley). There are many other interesting topics from this database. When I get more time, I will get back to this.

When this audio podcasting (and video podcasting) becomes a 'must have' technology in library services provision, I do hope that our library will be amongst the frontrunners.