College library using iTunes sharing to promote new material

Union College's library is doing something interesting with an ordinary install of iTunes. What are they doing you ask? Well, the librarians keep one copy of iTunes running at all times, and they maintain a playlist which features some newly added, or notable, music from the library's catalog. Anyone on the same subnet can then listen to those tracks thanks to the wonder of iTunes sharing.

The lame limitations that Apple has imposed on iTunes sharing (only 5 users can connect at a time and the subnet limit) make this idea a little less effective, but it is still very clever indeed.

[via librarian.net]