Webcasts

State Librarian Susan Hildreth discusses what's happening at the California State Library in this podcast of her Dec 12, 2006 webcast.

Back in May of 2006 the Rural Initiative hosted, "An Evening with Nancy Pearl," who, you may know, is the real life inspiration for the Librarian Action Figure. Anyway, due to technical difficulties, the archive of this neat event was delayed until - you guessed it! - now.

The archive of Mary Minow's July 11 webcast, Collection Policies that Stave Off Lawsuits, is now available for viewing. Yay! Expect the podcast version tomrrow.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the archive of our July 18 webcast, Using PDAs in Libraries, also encountered tehnical difficulties and won't be available until the week of July 24.
So it goes.

Due to a power outage at de Anza College, where we film the infopeople webcasts, the archive of Mary Minow's July 11 webcast, Collection Policies that Stave Off Lawsuits will not be available until early next week. That means the podcast will also be delayed. Sorry about that!

We've just picked up from the Califa Newsletter, the news that the College of Dupage is producing two free (to all) webcasts, sponsored by ALA, on June 2 and June 9th from 9am to 10:30am California time.
The first program on June 2 is Information Literacy: Reaching At-Risk High School and Community College Students with John Berry and a panel of school, community college and academic librarians.

After all the trial and error I've gone through getting started with podcasting, I decided it would make sense to share this information, and maybe build a resource that others could use (why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?). So, I have started a wiki on podcasting. Right now it's pretty minimal, just quick links to some handy stuff that I have found and use(d). Check it out here, and help it grow!

Susan Hildreth's latest quarterly webcast took place today. You can view the archived webcast here, and we are also happy to provide it as a podcast. Check it out - Susan is always worth a listen (or two)!
Oh, and as an extra bonus, cuz we're just super swell that way, here are some links to items she mentioned in her webcast:

Among the course webcast series being offered this term from UC Berkeley to all viewers/listeners is this jewel for librarians: Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business. Professor Marti Hearst of SIMS has managed to make such search luminaries as Sergey Brin, Hal Varian, Peter Norvig, and Mary Hodder available to her class and gotten their permission to video and record it for a future life as video- and pod-casts.