Well, I looked through the "list" of library podcasts and selected two...infopeople and Pierce County Library. I used my bloglines when subscribing to these and found that I could get the written articles but could not play the audio or video ones... So I broke down and subscribed to itunes which included the downloading of quicktime. Now I can view and listen to the whole podcast feeds on Bloglines.
But now that I have itunes, I felt that I had to make use of it too. I subscribed to LearnOutLoud.com's Audio Book of the Month using itunes. It only gives the first chapter or two of each book, but this may introduce me to books that I might otherwise ignore and miss out on.
Info people had a lot of good articles on how library systems can improve their services and I listened to one of their podcasts about how a national study has concluded that readership is up among the American population. I also read an article about usage of library space, which I believe of interest to Sno-isle librarians because of the ever expanding sources of material and our limited public space available. I subscribed to the Pierce County Library podcast just to keep abreast of what other nearby library systems are doing.
The podcasting lesson was fun but I don't know if I would want to use it routinely to keep up with many subjects. I guess I am getting over stimulated with the web 2.0 and am ready to just settle down and get lost in a book off the shelf!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Amen. I can see how you would get over stimulated by all this in such a short time. Thank you for your comments. Will be good to pass along some of the thoughts you all have written about the time required to really look at all these 'things', and the wonderful opportunity to do so as well.
ReplyDelete