LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

I love the idea of having information to go. With podcasts, libraries can avail themselves of a great tool. In thinking about how they can be used at my library, I feel that it would be a great way for us to market new resources and services. Right now we are doing a trial of Safar Textbooks and Learning Express Library. There is only a link to them at the bottom of our homepage. With a podcast, students could download and hear about the latest library news. We also have an exhibit in our main entrance that came from NASA, but in looking at our website, you wouldn't even know it. We will be upgrading Voyager (the integrated library system we use) in January and launching a new re-vamped website. I think that a podcast that share the latest news in the library, we would generate more interest in such activities. Our director is on the advisory board for Pasadena's One City, One Book. We're hoping to get campus participation, and I think a podcast would be a great way to promote the program. The last couple of years we participated in a Jewish literature program. Podcasting the programs would have been a great way for those that missed some of the meetings to continue to participate and the podcasts could have possibly generated even more interest.