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iPods @ SJCPL Originally uploaded by St. Joseph County Public Library.

Julie Hill, my friend and colleague from SJCPL, announces the new SJCPL iPod program!!!! I am so happy to see this fly!! Here’s a post she sent me for staff:

Books on iPod: Yours our Ours

The library will begin offering downloadable [...]

NANOS!

http://www.libraryforlife.org/blogs/lifeline/?p=1300

Coolness reigns at SJCPL!

I Love Rock & Roll (So Put Another Song on the iPod Baby)

iPod fan? iTunes Music Store Shopper? Perplexed about the music services?

Check out this post at TechCrunch:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/07/lets-buy-some-music-part-1/

More Useful Links for the OPAL Talk

UPDATE: What a great time that was! Thanks to all at OPAL!!

Here’s the presentation.

Here are some extra links as resources:

Cluetrain

Netvibes

Open Source Software at TechEssence

ALA on DRM & DRM Guide for Librarians

Librarians Who IM

Future of Music

Using Bloglines!

The Internet is Entering its LEGO era

Libraries with MySpace [...]

The Audio Visual Department is Changing!

I wrote this piece, entitled Crystal Visions at TechSource a few weeks ago. Today, we get this news out of Colorado via LISNews:

In mid-March, members will be able to start downloading documentaries and IMAX movies, travel and concert films, do-it-yourself remodeling flicks and exercise videos. “It will be very cool, because you could take [...]

Ten, no, Eleven Reasons for Vidcasting in the Library

I love the ideas about applications of video in library settings. One of these days we’ll see an official “video podcast” from a library show up in the next incarantion of the iTunes MEDIA Store.

David King has a great post about integrating video into Library Web sites. He lists ten things librarians might [...]

iTunes Sharing Marketing the Collection

A few of the shared libraries that pop up at SJCPL!

Bruce Connoly has an article in the new Computers in Libraries that presents an incredible idea: use iTunes built in sharing capaibilty to share music with library users! Connoly discovers other folks music librraies showing up when he opens iTunes. His thinking, sparked [...]

iPods in Scottish Schools!

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2181372005

Here’s the HOT part about student created content and new ways to look at learning:

The school was chosen after it successfully bid to pilot the “iPodagogy” project in Scotland.

Pauline Walker, the school’s deputy headteacher, said the iPod could even allow the pupils to make their own television shows, which they may then [...]

Experimenting with Video in iTunes & iPod

Screen capture set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/1245962/

So far, I’ve purchased some shows and videos and changed a couple of iMovies to iPod format. It’s fascinating. Last night, I snuggled in bed with two dogs and the Night Stalker! Who would have thunk that?

Here’s a review by Edward Baig at USAToday: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2005-10-19-video-ipod_x.htm?csp=34

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Video iPod & the Future

I was all a-lust when Jenny showed off her new Video iPod in Monterey! Mine was waiting when I got back! Hooray!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/1232433/

So far: It sounds GREAT! (Better than previous generations..I tested) It looks GREAT! (oh yeah..the screen is incredibly clear…)

I purchased the Desperate Housewives pilot, a few music videos and moved [...]