Podcasts

I listened to podcasts on WFMT.com; their podcasts include “Critical Thinking”, “Critic’s Choice”,  Specials, “Writers on the Record”, and the New York Philharmonic.  To my mind, the advantage of podcasts is that if there is something that is essential to your life, and you haven’t been able to hear it when it is broadcast, it is available.  The disadvantage, for me, is that even at the high speed of the library’s internet connection, it takes time to download – and then you have to have time to actually LISTEN!!!!  In my busy life, at this stage, I can barely get through all the things I either want or have to do and have no time left for such totally indulgent, optional activities.

The main kind of programming that I think the library could podcast would be an audio version of  instructions for using the catalog for those who are not visually oriented – although I can’t really imagine who that would be.  Perhaps other possibilities would be things like briefly describing the upcoming “One Book Everybody Reads” with a brief interview with the author  – to help whet everyone’s appetite for his live appearance!

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