Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Blogging in a cold climate



The "Wrap with love" blankets that our library has been the drop-off point for certainly came in handy this week, as my colleague and I worked through the Week 9 module at the public internet PCs. After an overnight temperature of minus 7 , the icy blasts coming through the foyer made us don the wraps!

It took ages for the British Library to download to listen to a podcast. I did manage to listen to the Valerie Holman "Print for victory" talk. The ABC site worked much faster for some reason. I discovered many interesting podcasts to listen to at a later time. Local (Australian) content also appealed to me on this website.

Uses of podcasts for our library could include book reviews, audio book clips from selected talking books, author visits, oral interviews to tie-in with the local Folk Museum and Family History Group.