The Web 2.0 Journey

"Mrs. Hill, may I please by excused? My head is full."

23 Things has indeed been an interesting and very S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G experience. Although I don't count this as a mastery of all the things we learned, it was a valuable exposure to the Web 2.0 world. As information specialists/librarians it is important for us to keep abreast of the current technology and this project has helped us out in that respect.

Downloadable Audiobooks

Our collection of downloadable audiobooks contains 352 fiction titles and 234 nonfiction titles. These books can be downloaded to a computer and then transfered to a portable device. It is unfortunate that iPods and Macs cannot be used, as these are the most popular of the portable devices.

Podcasts

Podcasts are audio files that can be downloaded from a computer to an IPOD.

Of the three podcast directories that were given in our discovery exercise, I liked the Library of Congress directory the best, no doubt because I am a librarian! I was fascinated to find out that you could listen to famous authors who had presented at the National Book Festival. Also, there was an impressive variety of RSS feeds and email subscriptions available through this site.

For our assignment, I subscribed to a podcast from Podcast Alley called "Open Stacks" which is one librarian's perspective on things of interest to the Library & Information Science profession.