Podcasts and YouTube

At last we have reached some common or garden Web2.0 apps that I already use! I use iTunes and listen to podcasts during my commute to Oxford. My treat of the week is The News Quiz or The Now Show. 

I think this could be a very useful tool in the academic world, and also youTube to open up lectures to a wider audience.

In a more library specific setting, Bodcasts are a great way of opening up some of the talks and exhibitions put on the by the Bodleian, which require a lot of effort but can only be attended by small audiences.

The SSL has a fun wee induction video on YouTube.  Warwick Uni's library has some really good videos that explain how to reserve books - I would have liked this at my uni and it would be useful at Oxford too - I know at least one trainee who is doing a video project this year.