[Web4lib] RE: free e-audiobooks

[Sharon Foster]

I believe that a great deal of campaigning for MP3 support took place
on the part of subscribing libraries. It takes a while to port an
application from Windows to Mac OS, I guess.

If you were starting to design a Web application today, would you
attempt to support IE 5? IE 4? I sure wouldn't.

Sharon M. Foster, 91.7% Librarian
Speaker-to-Computers
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/






On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM, don warner saklad <don.saklad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Information policy studies should be a greater priority for our
> library schools' faculties. For example see the great programs at
> http://www.albany.edu/cci/informationstudies
>
> Today librarians at the front end of our cities' public libraries'
> points of service need to have ever better knowledge of information
> policies and should be ever better advocates for more
> universal public libraries' services.
>
> We can advocate for ever more universal services for our public
> libraries using all our means to do so if we engaged with the true
> spirit of our mission with our communities' constituencies.
>
>
> On 3/7/09, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem is librarians are not producing much of this content, so it is
>> not specifically their knowledge that is lacking. It is totally in the hands
>> of companies like OverDrive that produce the content. Librarians can demand
>> reverse compatibility, but they are stuck in a catch-22. More options we
>> push for, more expensive a product becomes. Also, if we just avoid buying
>> into it as a sign of protest with the hope that companies will change their
>> ways, we get left behind as other access points develop around us.
>>
>> Brian Gray
>> mindspiral at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM, don warner saklad <don.saklad at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It's not compatible with OS X of only a few years old. OverDrive
>> > should be made compatible with operating systems that are a few years
>> > old so it's more universal. Our public libraries should advocate for
>> > more universal library services rather than for only people with the
>> > latest and greatest computer operating systems. It appears to be a gap
>> > in the technical knowledge of librarians responsible for ensuring the
>> > greatest access to our public libraries' services.=
>>
>> On the other side of this is where OverDrive is presented by our public
> libraries it should be presented as one of a compilation of free
> audiobooks so that at that point of service people who can't access
> one service might try another.
>>
>
>
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