Sunday, April 13, 2008

Podcasts and Vodcasts

It would be great to vodcast our author talks like Mosman does, but at the moment our technology doesn't seem to agree.

Another useful way to use them would be for online training of our catalogue and databases, and this could be for both staff and the public. Imagine the time and money the library could save here; and then if some people still needed the personal touch, that could be arranged as well, but I am assuming that it would be alot easier when using with either podcasts or vodcasts.

The major stumbling block, however, seems to the the quality of the recording material. Some of the examples were really poor and hard to understand, where others were top notch. I've heard proper recording material is very expensive, but our library is investigating.

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