Learn to Podcast

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Learn to Podcast Moreto Communicate with Your
Library Users

• By Kim Glover, MLS
• Flint Hills Technical College
• Friends University

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Podcasting for Libraries

• Providing audio access to information
• Library hours and policies
• Readers advisories
• Storytime
• Library instruction
• Oral History Projects
• Training

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Tools for Podcasting

• Audacity for PCSTotally Free!
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Garage Band for Macs
• Microphone

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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?t1plibrarys
  81
• http//podcasts.yahoo.com/search?t1plibrarys
  101

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Blogging

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

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Library Blog Examples

• Georgia State University http//www.library.gsu.e
  du/news/
• K-States Hale Library http//ksulib.typepad.com/
  blogs/
• List of Public Library Blogs
• http//www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php
  ?titlePublic_libraries

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Wikis

• Wikis uses in the library
• Collaboration on Projects
• Internal Projects
• Committee Work
• External Projects
• Community Projects

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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/W
  iki
• Association for Library Science to Children Wiki
  http//wikis.ala.org/alsc/index.php/Main_Page

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Additional Tools

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

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Tools for Library Staff

• Snagit-Screen capture
• http//www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp?CMPKgoogleSge
  n82tm
• HyperSnap-Screen Capture
• http//www.hyperionics.com/
• Camtasia-Screen Recording
• http//www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?CMPKgoogleC
  Stm

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Tools Continued.

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

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Contact Information

• Kim Glover
• Flint Hills Technical College
• kglover_at_fhtc.edu
• 620-343-4600 X 1339