Chris Kretz
Dowling College

Podcasting in academic libraries is still so new that its importance and ultimate utility has yet to be determined. This has not stopped a number of institutions from experimenting with the technology, adapting it for a variety of uses ranging from library tours to database tutorials to recordings of library events. More than any of the suite of social software applications that exist today, such as blogs, wikis, and IM, podcasting adds a new dimension to the library, giving it the opportunity to create a personality for itself, its services, and its greater community.

The Dowling College Library began podcasting in October 2005 with a monthly program entitled Omnibus. Omnibus is a collection of news items, interviews, reports and special segments that focuses on the intellectual life of the library and the college, a medium-sized, private school in Oakdale, New York. When the decision was made to start podcasting, the nature of the library and its collections, of the student body, and of the curriculum all played a part in determining what a library “show” would sound like.

This presentation shows how one library approached podcasting and endeavored to produce a unique, worthwhile, and interesting program that would appeal to its various user groups.

Click here to listen to Chris’ podcast.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Buffalo State College
http://www.buffalostate.edu/podcasts.xml

Butte College Chronicles
http://bcchron.blogspot.com/

Listen Up
http://gpclibraryradio.blogspot.com/

Podcast 411
http://www.podcast411.com/

Podcast for Teachers
http://www.podcastforteachers.org/

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Tags: podcasting, podcast, library, libraries, higheredblogcon

Elizabeth Townsend Gard
London School of Economics, Stanford Law School
http://academiccopyright.typepad.com

Colette Vogele
Stanford Law School
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/vogele

Colette Vogele and Elizabeth Townsend Gard will explore the legal aspects of podcasting in teaching and higher education. Colette is the author of the new Podcasting Legal Guide (soon to be available at Creative Commons and the Center for Internet and Society) and Elizabeth focuses her research on copyright in an academic environment. Colette will explain legal basics surrounding podcasting, and Elizabeth will focus on the higher education environment, particularly podcasting the traditional classroom. The presentation will address copyright, trademark, and right of publicity/privacy questions that arise in the context of podcasting in the teaching scenario. Copyright questions have to do primarily with third-party materials that are used in the podcast, and the rights under which the podcasting teacher wishes to distribute her content. Traditional licensing, Creative Commons licensing, and public domain dedications would be addressed. Questions about ownership of the podcast content (e.g., the institution vs. the teacher?) would also be discussed.

Elizabeth will focus the second part on “What questions should we ask when we podcast the traditional classroom?” This will look at at the specifics of Section 110 of the Copyright Act , which includes both exceptions to using copyrighted materials in the traditional face-to-face classroom teaching and the additional recent exceptions added with the TEACH Act. How does podcasting change classroom choices? What choices do podcasters have when podcasting the classroom? This part will also look at the additional issues of ownership of the podcasted lecture and student work that is podcasted.

View part one (30:59, .mov, 42M); requires Quicktime. Get the PowerPoint for part one.

View part two (25:16, .mov, 46M); requires Quicktime. Get the PowerPoint for part two.
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Tags: Podcasting, higheredblogcon