I have enjoyed reading about 'Audio' as part of my 23 Things course.
I've just downloaded and listened to a podcast from BBC Radio Wales. I have listened to podcasts in the past when I have missed something I wanted to hear on the radio, or if a programme has been on a local radio station elsewhere in the UK that I didn't have access to.
The term 'podcast' refers to audio files made available over the Internet for people to download and listen to.
I've also just enjoyed browsing the available audio books on the Project Gutenberg site:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project
I chose to download 'The Riot Act by British Parliament'! This took a good bit longer than the podcast to download, despite the file only being 5MB larger.
Digital audio books are becoming more popular and there has been an increase in Library Services subscribing to online audio book resources in order for their users to download them. Usually this means that the users log in online using their library card number, download an audio book to listen to and after a certain length of time has elapsed the audio book is automatically erased from the user's device.
I wonder if music and film will eventually be made available to my Library Service's borrowers to download in the same way?
Have you tried the new OverDrive service yet? What about the online language courses? Do you think that libraries should offer such services? Music could also be made available to loan via Overdrive or could be streamed in-house through other services? Do you think that there would be a demand for this? Interested to hear your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteHi ClaraGlocke. Yes, I have tried the OverDrive service which recently launched in my Library Service. I don't think it has taken off in a big way as yet but it is certainly gaining interest. I definitely think that libraries should offer all manner of downloads, be it books, language courses or music. I think there would definitely be a demand for music loans via download or through in-house streaming.
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