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Podcasts are a valuable source of information. Like most other information resources on the web, we suss out the best, most useful and authoritative resources, and present them to our patrons to help them find the information they want and need. In an effort to highlight podcasts that might be useful to librarians and patrons, I’ll be posting links to podcasts from time to time. If you have any recommendations for podcasts to highlight, please feel free to send an email and let me know.

Today’s highlight is the Butterball TurkeyTalk Podcast. In the past, Butterball has offered a hotline as well as online resources to help people out with their big bird roasting issues. To help people get a jump start on planning, Butterball has started a weekly podcast (6 episodes total) to help with Thanksgiving and December holiday planning.

Each episode will give you a quick, step-by-step lesson on essential turkey and holiday planning tips with the Butterball 5-Minute Lesson. This week, Mary begins with party prep ideas and tips for getting “holiday ready.” Then Sherleen walks you through the basics for cooking the perfect turkey.

This is a great podcast to add to your weekly library newsletter, talk up word-of-mouth to your patrons, add as a flyer to your display of Thanksgiving cookbooks and cooking magazines, or somehow otherwise highlight. The real URL is long and cumbersome, so feel free to use this TinyURL instead, which will point to the real page: http://tinyurl.com/jgynk.

As with most other podcasts, you can either click on the link to the episode and listen to the sound file on your computer, or you can subscribe to the feed to receive the podcast through a news aggregator or podcatcher.

Tags: PLA Blog, podcast, reference, technology

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