Thursday, January 3, 2008

POD & VID casts! Worth a cheer!

The more that I've seen of these casts the more I appreciate them for libraries and thing that VBPL could find great use for them. I've seen BOOK TALKS which I imagaine is people taking about the books they've read. I've seen "EXCERPTS FROM AUDIOBOOKS". This is a great idea - one can not only get a taste of the book but, just as importantly, one can get a taste of the reader and how does he/she sound. I've seen STORYTIMES - VBPL does some of these and could do more. What a great way to bring kids to the web site!. We could also make casts of the various speakers we have for events. If the speakers didn't want to have their program broadcast then we could do an interview with that person - also very interesting. We could air the events at each library - I mean, we could do like sportscasts, with play-by-plays & participant, spectator interviews, & descriptions! We could do videos of the CL art shows & the "pimp your bookcart" contests & the "read to learn" decorating contests. We could show off the Pungo scarecrows they do in the spring. All of these would show so many more people what great places VBPL are and maybe draw even more people here. How about "how to" videos for the internet or our various Virtual library sources? A lot of places to use these casts!

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