Playaway co-fouder and chief strategy officer, Blake Squires, was recently interviewed by Sarah Long, Director of the North Suburban Library System, a consortial group made up of 650 academic, public, school, and special libraries in the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Sarah's lengthy credentials include past service as president of both ALA and PLA, and she now maintains a lively multimedia website for North Surburban called Library Beat. Their full conversation is available as a downloadable podcast at:
http://www.librarybeat.org/longshots/play/149
And here's Blake leading a recent tour of Playaway headquarters in Solon, OH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbLsj_sbTM
Donna Pittman of TV station KMBC in Kansas City, MO recently filed a story on the popularity of Playaway at the Kansas City (Kansas) Public Library. We were particularly pleased to see her mention that, if you're lucky enough to have a car stereo with an auxiliary input jack, you can plug in a Playaway and listen over your car's speakers. You can watch the segment at:
http://www.kmbc.com/video/18896127/index.html