Podcasts are a great way to share information via the Web – they can be interactive (like a video) and can be downloaded, so the listener can take it with them to listen to at their leisure. It can also provide a human touch to items that would otherwise merely be digital. You can hear vocal intonations and emphases that can be lost when written. While podcasts are moderately new, they are an (under used) asset to in the quest to pass along and gather information for everyone!
On Podcast Alley I found a great site run by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) called Library Loft. First, the site is fantastic! It provides a bunch of resources (like help with your homework, book suggestions, links to YouTube videos by the library) and programs directed at young adults.
They offer tons of podcasts, both by authors of juvenile literature and the youth themselves. You can subscribe to their RSS feed here or check them out for free on iTunes by doing a search with the term “Libraryloft”. Here’s a link to the author Carla Sarrat’s podcast where she talks about her novel “Freshmen Focus”. It nice to hear some insights about a novel from the author directly! A neat feature of the website is if you listen to an author’s podcast and find yourself interested in their work, there is a link that allows you to request it from the library.
This site as a whole, including the podcasts, are a reminder of how interactive and web-savvy the new teen generation is and how people developing programs to reach them need to take this into account!
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