Posts Tagged "podcast"

Phone in your PLA 2008 thoughts to LISten

Attending PLA 2008? Not heading to Minneapolis, but attending via the Virtual Conference? Consider leaving a message for the good folks at LISten to be included in the LISNews podcast:
For those attending PLA 2008 National Conference, steps have been taken to allow conference participants to contribute reflections for consideration by LISTen. To [...]

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Podcast: Celebrating Excellence in Audiobooks for Children and Young Adults

I’ve never recorded a session for podcast and *not* sat in on the same session (my post of the session I attended is forthcoming), so this is something new. Many thanks to Melissa Faubel Johnson for minding the digital recorder!
The description for the session, which was presented Saturday, June 23, was as follows:
Audiobooks are a [...]

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Podcast: Casual wiki presentation from the 2007 PLA Spring Symposium

On Friday, March 2, 2007, about 55 people delayed the consumption of a well-earned dinner after a long day of learnin’ to attend my presentation on wikis and the PLWiki project. You can listen to the podcast of that presentation, attached to this post. You can also download the Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file [...]

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Podcast: Author Luncheon with Po Bronson

Many thanks to Po Bronson for giving us the permission to podcast his presentation at the 2007 PLA Spring Symposium Author Luncheon!
After a brief introduction from PLA president Susan Hildreth. The author of What Should I Do With My Life? and Why Do I Love These People? spoke about recent research in child learning [...]

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Podcast: Mary Baykan, LJ Librarian of the Year, Keynote Speaker

I had the distinct pleasure of hearing Mary Baykan, director of Maryland’s Washington County Free Library, executive director of the Western Maryland Public Libraries, and Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year for 2007, present the keynote session for the symposium, which Mary graciously gave us permission to record and podcast for your listening pleasure.
After an [...]

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Podcast: Impromptu interview with Joseph Eagan

The evening of Saturday, January 20 was a typical party-hopping affair. First I hit the NMRT social at the Elephant and Castle in the Red Lion Hotel, organized by one of our own conference bloggers Heidi Dolamore, and somehow found myself in the company of many, many ALA Councilors amidst the new members, some [...]

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Podcast: Interview with David Pogue

I had the opportunity to conduct a delightful, insightful, and entertaining interview this afternoon with David Pogue, New York Times columnist and blogger, Emmy-winning CBS news correspondent, and author of Windows Vista: The Missing Manual. My many thanks to David for taking the time to speak with me, and to his publicist Sara [...]

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Podcast Highlight: Just One More Book

This month’s podcast highlight is produced by Mark Blevis, whom I met at Podcamp Boston back in September, and his wife Andrea, called Just One More Book. Every week, Mark and Andrea go to a local coffee shop and talk about children’s books they and their daughter love. The podcast also includes interviews, [...]

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Podcast of note: TurkeyTalk Podcast

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 [...]

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Podcast: McGuire family sells lemonade to help libraries

This afternoon, as I was walking through the conference center with Kathleen Hughes, I saw out of the corner of my eye a flutter of yellow balloons. Outside near the shuttle buses, a the McGuire family, Bob, Meg, Miles (the 8-year old Marketing Mastermind for the stand), and Callan (a.k.a Cal, the 7-year old [...]

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