Podcasting & Gale Thompson
Just saw this exciting announcement on LM_NET’s El-Announce. Since I have recently begun watching Podcasts of the Daily Show (among more intellectual pursuits), I thought you might find this of great interest.
Thomson Gale Adds Podcast Feeds to Database Resources
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Nov. 8, 2005 - Thomson Gale, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), announces the addition of podcast feeds to InfoTrac on Thomson Gale PowerSearch and its Student Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center and History Resource Center databases. Weekly presidential radio addresses by George W. Bush from January 2005 to the present will be podcast beginning today. New presidential radio addresses will be added weekly.
While this addition marks the first podcast ever loaded to Thomson Gale reference databases, the company will add more podcasts in the coming months. Podcasting is included in Thomson Gale database subscriptions.
“With the number of colleges and universities handing out iPods, and the ever-increasing number of students and adults buying these and other MP3 devices, we have the responsibility to provide content to our users in ways that fit into their everyday lifestyle,” said Gordon Macomber, president of Thomson Gale. “Podcasts are now available for a number of premier content sources. It is our goal to find the ones that make sense in a school or library setting, and make them available as a supplement to traditional reference and periodical content.”
Podcasting is a means of distributing audio programs via the Internet. Once users select their desired files, or “feeds,” they can download the material to their iPod or MP3 device and hear the material whenever they choose.
For example, when students log on to the InfoTrac database and conduct a search for ‘Supreme Court,’ results under the ‘Multimedia’ tab will include any of the 2005 weekly presidential radio addresses that include mention of the Supreme Court. Users can access the podcast immediately, or download it for later listening to supplement their research.
Call your Thomson Gale electronic rep for more information at: 1- 800-877-4253
Terri Alcazar
Thomson Gale
Director of K-12 Curriculum Marketing
27500 Drake Road
Farmington Hills, MI
48331
800-877-4253 x 1014
terri.alcazar@thomson.com
www.galeschools.com
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My name is Geoffrey Shaw. I am a Library Science Graduate student at M.T.S.U. Here is my response to the Library Jargon. You asked how may people of different professions i.e. teachers and librarians understand each other without the jargon getting in the way. Here are some replacement words I would suggest using for some of the Library jargon:
Abstract: Summary,
Bibliographic Citation: Source
Boolean Searching: (Use “and” if you want to search for both words, “Or” if you want to search for either word)
Desiderata: Out-of-Print
House Organ: Company Magazine
Range: Shelve
Stack: Shelve
Professional Journal: Professional Magazine
Referred Journal: Professional Magazine
Bibliography: list of sources
Initial Articles: “No-No Words” The, A, an, for, that, different articles of the English languages will not help in a keyword search.
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