Thursday 29 November 2007

I looked at www.podcastalley.com and investigated the Naxos classical musical podcast. As evidenced throughout this Web 2.0 discovery voyage, podcasts are a handy tool to inform, educate and entertain colleagues, library users and anyone with access to The Web. Used in tandem with wikis and other Web 2.0 tools, podcasts allow today's librarians access to a much greater audience. Collaborative projects with colleagues world-wide rather than those colleagues within an adjacent region means that research and the exchange of ideas can be conducted globally and relatively instantaneously. Librarians working in remote areas of Victoria who may not be able to travel to Melbourne to attend seminars can now be kept in the loop via podcast.