Public library lends out book-filled iPod Shuffles

Public library lends out book-filled iPod Shuffles

Here’s an interesting story that I came across on engadget.com. Having recently become an iPod user myself, I’m thinking seriously now about some of the ways we might be able to use podcasting in literature courses.



We know that small-town libraries have shed their image as fusty repositories of moldering encyclopedias and are now high-tech temples of e-learning, but we were still impressed to find out that at least one library has come up with a novel way to get teens into libraries: put audiobooks onto iPod Shuffles. We have it on good word that the South Huntington Public Library in Suffolk County, New York, is doing just that. They apparently have a handful of Shuffles, pre-loaded with books, and are planning to add more.