Podcasting, online video, slidecasting and slidesharing can play multiple roles in libraries and information organizations. They can be used for information literacy instruction, promoting accessibility of resources, and preserving talks and events. These tools provide instruction in an engaging format that appeals to different learning styles. They also allow libraries to enhance their services cost-effectively while saving librarians' time. These digital media are seen as enhancements that connect to libraries' existing goals of providing equal access to information.

2. What is the role of podcasting, online video, slidecasting and
slidesharing in libraries and information organisations?
Multiple benefits and uses, including:
Information Literacy Instruction
Connection and Accessibility
Convenience and Permanence
Appeals to a larger range of learning styles
Easy to use and affordable
Promotes real learning while saving librarians’ time

3. Podcasting
Podcasts are currently used in numerous ways
to enhance services to users, including:
Connecting users to talks and lectures at these
organisations – especially helpful for those unable to
attend
Providing a permanent way to preserve these talks in
a low-cost, convenient, and easy to use manner
Providing a fixed reference point for users when
accessing past talks

4. Slidecasting and
Slidesharing
Role: Examples:
Information Literacy How to use the catalogue
Instruction – helps give
How to send an email
context to what is being
discussed. How to use a database
Promotion of library Slideshow versions of
programs, services, activ tutorials, photographs of
ities, etc. library events, etc.

5. Online Video and
Vodcasting
Used for similar purposes:
Instruction
Recordings of important events – guest speakers,
story hour, etc.
Video tours of the library

6. Do I see these as enhancements to the existing
work, or services in their own right?
Both, but primarily as an enhancement to existing
work, because:
There is a connection to the work already being done
There is a connection to the goals of the library or
organisation, especially when it comes to providing
equal access to information for all users.

7. References
Educause Learning Initiative. (March, 2006). 7 things you should know about screencasting.
Retrieved August 12th, 2012 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7012.pdf.
Farkas, M.G. (2007). Screencasting and vodcasting. Social software in libraries: building
collaboration, communication, and community online. Medford, New Jersey. Information Today.
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Iliff, J., and Rousseau, T. (2007). Chapter 5: an introduction to podcasting for librarians. In
Hanson, K. and Cervone, H.F. (Eds.), Using interactive technologies in libraries: a LITA guide (pp.
83-97) New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Library of Congress. Podcasts. Retrieved August 15th, 2012 from http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/.
State Library of Queensland. Library 2.0. Retrieved August 15th, 2012 from
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/81007/SLQ_-
_Library_2.0_Podcasting,_vodcasting_and_mp3s.pdf.