Reaching Your Customers Through Audio or Video Podcasts
Podcasting requires little in the way of equipment or new technology. Most of the equipment is simply taken from radio-station supply houses – a small digital voice recorder, one or two decent microphones with stands, an entry-level mixing board, and a computer that can take audio input and further mix it and convert it to the proper file type and size.
How could it be used?
- Children’s story-times
- Bilingual children’s story-times
- Teen event announcements
- Library event marketing
- Author visit and event excerpts (and replays)
- Book discussion replays
- Library policy statements
- Bilingual policy statements
Obviously, I think the greatest area for this would be in children’s programming – being able to push podcasts out through the library’s website may prove very popular with both individual families and daycares.
Video?
With the addition of a simple video cam you could expand to a video service that would allow podcasting recorded puppet shows and other children’s and library events.
Links
Michael Stephens talks about library podcasting here