Podcasting at the library?

Those of you who attended Linda Braun's first Emerging Technologies workshop last week learned a lot about using RSS feeds to keep up to date on news and other information. Of course, just when you're starting to feel comfortable with a new technology, something new always come along.

Several librarian bloggers are starting to experiment with podcasts as a way to disseminate information. Podcasts work very much like RSS feeds, but are audio files sent out to iPods. If you don't use an iPod, you can still listen to the Podcasts as long as you have Windows Media Player installed on your computers.

My question is: how can libraries use Podcasts to get information out to their patrons, particularly those teenagers who are the most likely to have an iPod? I would love to see your thoughts.

To hear some test Podcaststs see:

Greg Schwartz, Open Stacks , http://openstacks.net/os/archives/000732.html

Karen Schneider, Free Range Librarian, http://freerangelibrarian.com/archives/020105/podcasting_test.php

Michael Stephens, Tame the Web, http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/archives/000921.html

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