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Learn to Podcast & More to Communicate with Your Library Users

Learn to Podcast & More to Communicate with Your Library Users. By Kim Glover, MLS Flint Hills Technical College Friends University. Podcasting for Libraries. Providing audio access to information Library hours and policies Reader’s advisories Storytime Library instruction

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Learn to Podcast & More to Communicate with Your Library Users

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  1. Learn to Podcast & Moreto Communicate with Your Library Users By Kim Glover, MLS Flint Hills Technical College Friends University

  2. Podcasting for Libraries • Providing audio access to information • Library hours and policies • Reader’s advisories • Storytime • Library instruction • Oral History Projects • Training

  3. Tools for Podcasting • Audacity for PCS…Totally Free! • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Garage Band for Macs • Microphone

  4. Podcasting Information • Audacity Tutorial: http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/index.html • Library Podcasts: • Oral Interview • Sunnyvale Public Library Podcasts • http://www.librarypodcasts.org/ • Library Instruction: • Fairfield University • http://www.fairfield.edu/lib_podcasts.html • Collection of Library Podcasts • http://podcasts.yahoo.com/search?t=1&p=+library&s=81 • http://podcasts.yahoo.com/search?t=1&p=+library&s=101

  5. Blogging • Communicating with library users/personnel through online journalizing • Book discussions • http://readinglolitabookclub.blogspot.com • Question and answer • Feedback • Internal communication

  6. Library Blog Examples • Georgia State University: http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/ • K-State’s Hale Library: http://ksulib.typepad.com/blogs/ • List of Public Library Blogs • http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Public_libraries

  7. Wiki’s • Wikis uses in the library: • Collaboration on Projects • Internal Projects • Committee Work • External Projects • Community Projects

  8. Wiki Resources • Wikis Spaces (where you can sign up for your own Wikis): http://www.wikispaces.com/ • Articles about Wikis: • MSNBC “Wikis make deeper inroads into corporations” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17582825/ • BuisnessWeek: “Wikis’ Winning Ways.” http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm • Libraries and Wikis: • Library sponsored wikis: http://liswiki.org/wiki/Wiki • Association for Library Science to Children Wiki: http://wikis.ala.org/alsc/index.php/Main_Page

  9. Additional Tools • Tagging • Uses in the library: • Ready Reference • Helping patrons collect and organize resources • Tagging Resources • http://del.icio.us/

  10. Tools for Library Staff • Snagit-Screen capture • http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp?CMP=KgoogleSgen82tm • HyperSnap-Screen Capture • http://www.hyperionics.com/ • Camtasia-Screen Recording • http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?CMP=KgoogleCStm

  11. Tools Continued…. • Sticky Notes-Computer Post it notes • http://www.sticky-notes.net/ • PrimoPDF-Free PDF Converter • http://www.primopdf.com/

  12. Contact Information Kim Glover Flint Hills Technical College kglover@fhtc.edu 620-343-4600 X 1339

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