Comments on: Gotta Have It? http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=122 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: librarybob http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-312 librarybob Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:07:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=122#comment-312 This cuts both ways ... it's hard <i>not</i> to adopt technologies if there's a public that would appreciate the library having it. Hence downloadable audibooks.<br/><br/>We recently asked our public about the library getting BluRay or HD-DVD formats and heard a loud and clear "not yet." So we'll wait. Besides, there's some tech-buzz about both of these being orphans already ... supposedly replaced by flashdrives.<br/><br/>(And there <i>are</i> SD card audiobooks on the market.)<br/><br/>I don't suppose there's one answer. All we can do is scratch the itches we see. This cuts both ways … it’s hard not to adopt technologies if there’s a public that would appreciate the library having it. Hence downloadable audibooks.

We recently asked our public about the library getting BluRay or HD-DVD formats and heard a loud and clear “not yet.” So we’ll wait. Besides, there’s some tech-buzz about both of these being orphans already … supposedly replaced by flashdrives.

(And there are SD card audiobooks on the market.)

I don’t suppose there’s one answer. All we can do is scratch the itches we see.

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