I love podcasts! The idea of adding them to the library’s webpage is great. I love Sprinfield’s “Listen to This” podcast – where all it says is that you have won a prize – some Pavlov training – if you listen to the podcasts you are in for a treat! I also love the story podcast – I wonder if publishers would give permission for a virtual story hour (OK that takes it out of the realm of podcast when you add visuals). I can see reading, say, a Llama Llama book and inviting the kids to come in and find the other Llama Llama books!
Another great idea would be to feature the beginning or an excerpt from each of the DCF or GMA books. This might be an ambitious project but could be a collaboration among libraries and have the link all posted on a unified page with each library having the link to that page on their own sites.
I did not find many book review podcasts – the best were Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust and NPR’s books. I’d really like it if Booklist did a podacst. And someone refered to School Library Journal’s podcast, but when I searched for them, none seemed to be current, so perhaps they have discontinued that.
This thing was good because it reminded me that it’s possible to search out the type of podcasts I might be interested in instead of just waiting to stumble upon them.
