I've no idea why I haven't used podcasts a lot up until now. There are radio programmes that I enjoy but if I happen to be out and miss them, then I just miss them. So in the same way as I view the majority of my tv programmes when I want to watch them via Virgin on Demand or on-line, I hadn't really considered doing the same for radio programmes. So I really enjoyed this weeks task of getting to grips with them and exploring all the types of podcasts that are out there.
I eased myself in gently by subscribing to an RSS feed of the podcasts of the Jonathan Ross show on Radio 2 as we listen to that every Saturday morning if we can. I then found a Claudia Winkleman Arts show that looked interesting sosubscribed to that as well. We recently went to see the comedian Dave Gorman at the New Theatre and hasn't realised that he had a radio show until we went, so I searched for that online and listened and subscribed to the podcasts for that. So now I will have all these new podcasts to listen to (if I find the time!) and like the idea of downloading them to my ipod so I can listen to them on the go or even on long car journeys. I did have quick look on the podcast.com site where that are 1000's of podcasts, so I'll have to explore that a bit more and find other things I'm interested in listening to.
Last years library trainees here at SSL created a podcast for a tour of our library as their final end of year project. This was then made available via our website and also downloading on to some MP3 players we purchased which readers could borrow and do a self guided tour. We felt this would be useful at the start of MT for new students that were unable to attend the library induction and also thought out the year for visitors to the library. The only problem is that we've had such a lot of changes recently in the library that the content already needs updating. It would be interesting to explore though other uses for podcasts in a library context in the future.
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