Podcasts

I went to PodcastAlley to look around. I first clicked on "Environment" under "Pick a Podcast Genre". There are a lot of people interested in that topic. Then I put in "Non Verbal Learning Disorder" under "Search for a Podcast" and was pleased to find a plethora of podcasts which I will have to spend more time with at a future date. My daughter has this problem and it could be a new source of information. Finally I entered "Library" in the "Search for a Podcast". A nice long list appeared. It is just like any search list where some of the podcasts have more to do with libraries than others. It appears to be in order of relatedness. Before I figured this out, I went to the description of a podcast called "The Art of Drink" wondering what than had to do with libraries. Well, you can add to your personal "library" of mixed drink recipes by downloading there weekly drink recipes and instructions. The library could certainly give step by step directions on how to do something downloaded onto an MP3 player in the form of a podcast. Here's an idea - each week there could be a podcast made available on the website for people to download and use at the libary for using the data bases, searching on the net, using government documents, searching for relatives, using self checkout, etc. Next, I investigated "Dublin Castle". This was a tour of an Irish castle on a podcast that included a look in the castle's library. A library tour could certainly be a downloadable podcast. Then I finally landed on "Library Geeks" where "librarians, geeks and geek librarian geek out about libraries." They haven't posted since January. I listened to parts of a couple of posts. Not very interesting or informative. I moved on to "LibVibe". Much more up-to-date and interesting, newscast format covering a variety of topics. None of these had RSS feeds. So off I went to Podcast.net. This was much easier to use than PodcastAlley.com. I went to "Hennepin County Library - Teenlinks Podcasts" because I used to live in Hennepin County. The RSS feed connection was easy to find and use. It was also easier to listen to the podcasts. What a great way to get teens involved in the library. The teens actually did the podcasts.