Week 3/Thing 7

In addition to all the other 23 things stuff this week, many of us also participated in a digtial library training course hosted by Overdrive to teach about the new ListenUp Vermont audiobook initiative. I can't say enough about how great this service wil be for our patrons. But as this post relates to a technology issue, I want to comment about how the training which combines online web sharing(all 10 of us from all over the state sitting at our computers could view the same power point pres) and telephone conferencing ( so we could hear each other and ask questions of Ann our trainer-presenter.) There were a very few glitches such as a hum on one of the phones and you did have to make sure that your computer was updated, but it went very well. I've never participated in this type of training before and I was impressed. YOu don't need any new expensive equipment and it certainly saves on travel costs! Kudos to Stephanie Chase (who sat in on the training) for making this prgram work and setting up the trainign sessions.