Thing #21: Podcasts

I couldn't find it in any of the recommended podcast directories, but I have added the Nebraska Library Commission's podcast to my Bloglines account. While I was at it I also found and added the BookTalk podcast. I have added a blogroll of my Bloglines account subscriptions to the column on the left so that you can see my podcasts and other RSS subsciptions - I should have done that earlier for the Bloglines Thing.

As with YouTube, wikis, etc., podcasts are a way in which libraries can share their knowledge and practices with their staff, patrons, and professional peers.

Thing #20: YouTube

Here are two of my favorite musicians - Damon Albarn of Blur and Ray Davies of the Kinks - performing one of my favorite songs - Davies' "Waterloo Sunset". I don't spend much time exploring YouTube because I am afraid of getting too much into it and letting it steal all of my time, but I do like looking up the occasional music video or music performance.

As for YouTube and libraries, the possibilities are endless: advertisements, instructional videos, online copies of archival film holdings, etc. Any video that a library creates can be posted to YouTube if the library so wishes, thereby reaching a wide audience - if anyone can find it in amongst all the other stuff on YouTube!