Tuesday, July 31, 2007

#20 You Tube #21Podcasts #22 Audiobooks

I viewed YouTube some of the categories. I was looking for some sort of library induction, short video & could not find. I found so many interseting and useless videos. One of the intersting ones that I found was 'We are one'. The message is about unity/ humanity. It says we all have something common irrespective of many differences. We are one race sharing the world. I think this vedeo can be used in the library for Harmony day.

I dislike videos (so many) catered for cheap interests such as 'Pretty teenage tits'. One will have to filter through the myriad of videos to find something of value.

I think categaries such as People & Blogs, News & Business can be applied to library website; and also libraries can upload their own production, e.g. library week, story time, muti-cultural events etc.

#21 Podcasts
I tried Yahoo Podcasts & searched for library related ones & found 222 podcasts. I chose LibVibe: the library news podcasts. In addtion to very interesting episodes, I also found very strange ones too; e.g. 'Man found shot at library'; Spy camera upsets Tompkins County library employees.

I realised that podcasts are useful because they present us (and we also can present) what is happening around the world including the libraries.


#22 Audiobooks

I could not established a Netlibrary account; when I clicked on PLCMC, I got the message: "Page not found." Then I viewed Netlibrary's Demo on e-books & journals; later I read that a free account can be set up & looked for it and did not find. Then I viewed New eAudiobook collections-Feature Titles: 'Agnes og God {Audio Theatre Series} from home page and got the message: 'Internal Sever Error: ASP error".

In short without establinshing an account, I could not even get an abstract of a title that I am interested in.

1 comment:

Administration said...

You ould not be able to extablish a Netlibrary account, but there were alternate instructions on the ATO blog explaining this. I can see somem uses for podcats inthe library applications, but searching fo ruseful ones is a "trial and error" experience. Keep up the good work...almost finished