The potential benefits for libraries incorporating podcasts into our service provision are many. Podcasts can obviously be a great way to communicate information to our library users. Users are able to save content digitally; they can then take this information away on their portable application and listen to it at their convenience.
Some examples I have looked at within the Yahoo Directory show that podcasts can provide a medium for children and adults alike to be able to share their opinions and ideas about their favorite books, inform others of upcoming programs and events, and be able to deliver it all to a wide audience in a convenient and inexpensive way. Podcasts can assist library staff as it helps us keep in touch with people in our communites who engage in the use of futuristic technology. Podcasting is a hit among young people and provides them with the opportunity to practice digital recording, mixing and mastering skills.
Podcasts are for everyone - you just have to look around you on trains, watch people out walking, those with car hand's free connections that listen while they drive......Now let's see if I'm clever enough to be able to attach one to my blog?
mmm.....not quite?......but I now have Gilford Public Library's Podcasts added to my Bloglines Feeds... and I am sure there are still more reasons for their introduction and usage in our libraries.
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