Providing Internet-based sound resources for patrons

[Karen G. Schneider]

My next column in American Libraries will be about patron access to
sound-based Internet resources.  

Does your library provide Internet-based sound resources for patrons?  Are
your patrons (and you) interested in and/or using streaming audio, MP3,
online radio, sound archives, and other sound-based services?  Do you
provide sound rooms?  Do you provide headphones (and how do you handle the
sanitation issue)?  Have you upgraded computers to make them sound-ready
(and do you have any comments on that)?  Do you have examples of using
sound-based resources to fill reference requests?  Does your library
specifically proscribe sound-based resources for any reason?  Have you
encountered any copyright abuse incidents related to sound files?  Do you
have a favorite sound-based Internet resource?  Have sound-based Internet
resources changed your life?  (Perhaps that was one question too many...)

If you would like to comment, please email me no later that 9 p.m. EST
Wednesday, August 25, and be sure to include your full name, title, library
or organization, city and state.  Thanks!  
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Karen G. Schneider kgs at bluehighways.com 
http://www.bluehighways.com 
Assistant Director of Technology, Shenendehowa Public Library, NY
Author: A Practical Guide to Internet Filters, Neal Schuman, 1997