I mentioned in the last show that I had an upcoming engagement that I didn’t want to talk about until I saw a public manifestation of it. Well now there is, so I can safely tell you that I’ll be doing a two-part series on podcasting for the SirsiDynix Institute.

I’ll be talking about the consumer end of podcasting in the first week (May 17, 8 AM Pacific). During the second week, we’ll talk about podcasting from the content creator angle (May 24, 8 AM Pacific). It’s free so I invite all to register ere. The dates are wrong on the registration page. It’s definitely May, not March. I imagine this will be corrected soon.

And, of course, as great as Senior Librarian for PubSub Concepts sounds, that’s not me, but someone else entirely.

Thanks to a handy link from Library Stuff, I discovered that the Curtin University Library and Information Service is now podcasting. So far, they are offering an audio tour of the library as well as a clip about ID numbers and passwords. Here’s a link to the podcast feed. Kudos to Constance for spearheading this project. Perhaps you can help with her librarian blogger survey?

Now presenting: Open Stacks #19

Also available via the podcast feed.

It’s amazing what I can get done with a weekday off from work. 19 minutes and 22 seconds this time around. I’ve tried a few new things, but it’s still just me.

Show notes:
1. Speed dating @ your library
2. SLA on the EPA
3. Pornland Security
4. I’m sorry there, Jackson. I am…for real.
5. Mace-book?

Update (Sunday, 2/26 2:02 PM): I was listening to a stream of this show and noticed that you could barely hear the music bed, if at all. So I upped the gain on the music track and exported it again. I also made the file size a bit smaller in the process. I’ve actually replaced the original mp3 with the new version, so if you’ve already downloaded it, you may want to take a brief listen to the new one to sample the difference.

Since I seem to be stuck on the Alternative Teen Services blog this evening, allow me to direct you toward a worthwhile post entitled Podcasting & Teens, which concludes “let us embrace the podcast technology.” I’ll drink some Kool-Aid to that.

If you only listen to one library-based podcast ever, I’d have to recommend the first episode of the Cheshire Public Library podcast that I mentioned in January, when it received some early press coverage. Sarah Morgan has gotten some great effort, energy and creativity out of her teens. The “Love-Hate Musical Debate” over Creed is freakin’ hilarious.

You won’t be able to find a direct podcast feed on the site (the instructions tell you to head to iTunes and subscribe there, which is just not my style at all), but your intrepid librarian has sussed out a proper podcast feed.

Under the picture of Michael Stephens that sits next to the word HOT in the Library 2.0 wiktionary is an embedded media player with this podcast blaring.

I was taking a look at the Alternative Teen Services blog, based on Brian Smith’s recommendations, and discovered a handy list of Library 2.0 Services to Teens. Naturally, there were some podcasts there, including one I had never come across before, courtesy of the Teen Matrix at Manchester Public Library in Connecticut.

They actually have two feeds available:

Prime Speaks is “a podcast about books.”

Prime’s Box Live is a “video podcast about books.”

It’s been a few months since any new content has appeared on either feed, so I hope I haven’t completely missed the boat on this one.

Just wanted to acknowledge WebJunction’s first foray into podcasting. Their RSS 2.0 feed is now enclosure-friendly and ready for subscribing in your podcatcher. The first production is a brief discussion of a technology planning product called TechAtlas. Interesting stuff.

This broken iPod situation is just killing me.

Mark Lindner is definitely a nominee for Most Valuable Carnival Host. Check out his work at the Carnival of the Infosciences #25. Mark takes a single submission (Thank you, Steve!), rolls it in honey and makes a big ball of sticky liblog goodness out of it. I really enjoyed his admission that “I’m not even sure what Andrea is talking about at points.” I laughed because I felt the same way after my first reading of her post “On Tagging People.” It’s a worthy read though.

Next week, the Carnival welcomes Amanda Robertson as host over at Data Obsessed. Please (pretty please? I hate to beg, but we’re hitting rock bottom on the submissions) send your submissions to amanda [at] renji [dot] org by Sunday at 6 PM.

As always, I’m in need of hosts. New and prior hosts are welcome to inquire within via the contact form. Need more info?

Update: I completely forgot to give a big thanks to Blake for selecting the Carnival as one of his 10 Blogs to Read in 2006. Incidentally, there are many other reasons to thank Blake, so let me offer the following unsolicited testimonial: If you are looking for a quality, librarian-friendly webhost, you can do no better than Blake and LISHost. Just trust me on this one.

I’ve had these two items sitting in my browser for a few days, so I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled across them in the first place (most links of this nature are coming through a del.icio.us podcasting feed).

Robyn Rosenberg has a blog dedicated to Podcasting in Libraries and Higher Education. There’s no RSS feed shown on the site, but I managed to dig up a feed through elementary guesswork.

Brian Ferguson, author of A Librarian’s Journal, has done some experimenting with podcasting. His efforts are archived at BrainWave. Here’s a podcast feed.