Podcasts & Professional Development

The idea of podcasts is not new to me - in fact, I quite often listen to podcasts through the CBC app on my iPhone.  Podcasts can be an excellent professional development.  There are lots of good Librarian focused podcasts out there dealing with topics specific to libraries (i.e. weeding, programming, collection development).  However, the podcast that I stumbled upon for this assignment was on bookrageous.podbean.com.  I listened to episode 65; Young Adult Books.


Today was the first time that I visited the bookrageous site.  The first half of the podcast focused on what the panelists are currently reading (or most recently read).  Then there is a musical intermission, followed by a discussion of some of the books received ALA Youth Media Awards.  I was drawn to this podcast because I am doing a course right now about award winning youth literature.


I did check out the sites that were suggested by the 23things team, but I found that to listen to any of the podcasts on those sites we would have to register and I was reluctant to do that.  But I am happy that I kept looking, because I think the bookrageous team are awesome and I will definitely be checking out some of there other episodes.