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The ‘Library Café’: distributing and archiving local culture through a podcast library interview program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill*
Affiliation:
Vassar College, Box 512, Poughkeepsie NY 12604, USA
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Email: thhill@vassar.edu
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Abstract

The author describes a librarian’s effort in community-building in an academic setting, through the development of a podcast radio interview program. The paper addresses the professional rationale for this type of outreach endeavor, the communities served, types of content, the labor involved, tools employed and technical requirements, as well as the question of audience.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 2010 , pp. 40 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2010

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