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Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart muses on his forty years as a book reviewer and the Harry Potter phenomenon in this podcast. Along the way he discusses a lot of other books. Definitely worth a listen if you’re looking for something to read!
Here is a list of citations of the titles mentioned in the podcast.

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart reports on modern reinterpretations of the classic King Arthur legends, focusing on the just-published Here Lies Arthur by British novelist Philip Reeve and also on T. H. White’s classic The Once and Future King.
Here is a brief citation list of books mentioned in the podcast.

It’s not as if we haven’t heard of podcasting—producing simple and inexpensive audio and video recordings which can be shared online with anyone interested in what we are doing. We may, on the other hand, be wondering what it means to us and to the library members and guests we serve. As mentioned in the first of this two-part series, the answer can affect our ability to meet our users’ needs.
“I think it’s something that is a technology or a tool that has become very mainstream,” Infopeople instructor David Free noted recently in discussing the Practical Podcasting and Videocasting workshops he is offering between now and November 2008. “You can get podcasts of TV shows and radio shows. It’s a technology that people in communities are going to be more used to seeing in other areas.”
And it is already a format which is providing library staff and library members and guests with resources when they need the information—not just when we’re available to provide it. Podcasting is increasingly used to post basic as well as specialized information of interest to library users as well as to staff in need of brief and readily available training on a variety of topics.
Infopeople itself offers a large variety of podcasts on its website—Michael Cart’s “Reviews” on books and those who write them; Joan Frye Williams and George Needham’s “Thinking Out Loud” series on innovations and contemporary issues in libraries; and archives of Infopeople webcasts and webinars from a variety of presenters. Free also suggests other podcast archives which may be of interest to those unfamiliar with the full potential of the format and the content it offers: the Los Angeles Public Library speaker series which has featured podcasts hosted by Alfred Molina, Debra Winger, Robert Scheer, and many others; the “Library Audio and Video to Go” series produced by the George C. Gordon Information Technology Division at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and the “Behind the Desk Alden Audio Tour” produced by Ohio University Libraries.
Those attending Free’s workshops “are going to have a better understanding of what podcasting is—both audio and video podcasting—how libraries are using the technology for outreach and as a learning tool,” he promises. “They’re going to have had the experience of creating an audio podcast. They’ll also have an understanding of how to make a video podcast. You don’t necessarily have to be an expert to use this technology in libraries.
“I’m not going to say, ‘You all have to go back and make podcasts in your library’…but I think it’s important that everybody has an understanding of what it is,” he concluded.

In this podcast, Infopeople’s Michael Cart talks about some blogs that cover comics & graphic novels. He also discusses the results of The Kids and Family Reading Report Family Reading Report, a survey conducted by Yankelovich and Scholastic . Is the Internet making kids better readers, or is it making them turn away from books? Listen and learn!
Here is a list of citations from the podcast (PDF format).

It’s summertime and the living is easy, and it’s also time for beach books! In this podcast, Infopeople’s resident bookmeister Michael Cart talks about what’s hot this summer, and what makes great summer reading.
Here’s a list of citations (in PDF format) to books he mentions.

Who says comics aren’t art? In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart talks about the explosion of comic art museums and reviews some nifty new graphixc novels. On his list: the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University, the National Cartoon Museum, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
Here’s a citation list of titles mentioned in this podcast.

Who’s America’s greatest living man of letters? In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart makes his case for the brilliant, acerbic, and prolific Gore Vidal. Michael has actually interviewed Vidal (more than once), so speaks of his own firsthand experiences. Wow!
Here is a list of references mentioned in the podcast.

In his latest podcast, Michael Cart discusses the rebirth of the popular 1980’s teen series Sweet Valley High and looks at what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. He also examines the often symbiotic relationship between teen and tween book series and the TV shows they spawn.
Here is a list of items mentioned in the podcast (PDF fomat).

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy — and author — Michael Cart reports on writers’ rush to the Internet to promote their work — and, sometimes, themselves (think Michael Cart 2.0!).

In this latest podcast, Infopeople bookmeister Michael Cart takes an affectionate look at the long career of Ray Bradbury and recalls interviewing him at the recent CLA conference.