Friday, July 6, 2007

Downloaded an audio book!

Pretty cool. I've never done this, even though we've had this collection for a while, now. I'm looking forward to listening to this book and then downloading books to an MP3 player, so I can hear them at home! Very good.

I also looked a Project Guttenberg, which I had seen many years ago. They've added stuff and it's neat to know that people can volunteer to help them with all those public domain titles.

I like this, a lot. I also like getting my hands on music to listen to....so I should be in Library Heaven. (Oh, yeah, we live in Library Heaven!!)

While looking for podcasts....

....I found this library website.

http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/

I think it's in Westerville, OH.

I'm not sure if I like the website but thought it was interesting that the Director has a blog, as do adult and teen services and the Summer Reading program. There are podcasts and lots of other things. So many of the things we are becoming acquainted with here in 23 things are being used at Westerville. Good for them. I think it would be neat to have podcasts on a library website, so people could play them at home, when they want to put on a story for their little one, or maybe hear a book review. We could also put on our hours and locations...kind of like on the phone message. I also feel that you need to let folks know how long a podcast is - just a courtesy, especially if you're telling a story.

It was good to have a websites that point to podcasts, because if I really want to listen to a podcast, well by golly, I Want to Listen to a Podcast, not have to dig through all the other google stuff.