Podcasts for Aural Learners and Cool Kids – Now Available

Wish you had a way to spend the next 6 minutes laughing, rolling your eyes, and learning all at the same time? Well, do I have the thing for you…

The Weinberg Memorial Library is proud to present a series of Podcasts on Information Literacy.

The goal of these podcasts are to be informative and interesting. Our “60 second lecture” on Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary sources should help you get a handle on what the differences are between these three types of sources and all in 74 seconds! (Yes, I know, “60 second lecture” is somewhat of a misnomer, but bear with me). 

The other podcast which is up and running is actually our first. This podcast, entitled “What’s the Matter with Wikipedia?” guest stars, Library Student Worker and campus celebrity, Allen Zelno. Tune into this podcast to hear Allen say things like, “Gee Whiz, George” and find out if Allen ever figured out if America was or was not founded in 1492!

These two podcasts both feature me as a speaker, but future podcasts will certainly have different librarians and more student volunteers sharing their voices.

I was volunteered as the guinea pig for this experimental run, in turn, I volunteered Allen because the man knows not of fear.

Overall, experimental or not, these podcasts turned out to be fun and interesting to listen to, so don’t be the only one on campus who is missing out. Listen here:

http://academic.scranton.edu/department/wml/bihp.html

Just click the Podcasts link and the two titles should just pop right up for you. Click them and they will stream right from your computer.

The podcasts are also available on the Facebook page! Why aren’t you a fan yet?!?! No excuses now, go to the following link and show your love for the Library:

The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library – Fan Page

Please send your suggestions and comments my way! I want to know what you think and what you would like to hear in the future. Happy Listening!