A great place to find podcasts is Podcast Alley, particularly if you're not using iTunes. Even if you are an iTunes user, Podcast Alley is still an excellent resource.
There's a huge variety of podcasts now, ranging from an individual with a computer microphone to commercial news organizations to scholarly journals to medical school lectures. Libraries are attempting to determine how podcasts fit into their resources, and some are even creating their own.
Academic librarians who work with departments at their institutions to produce podcast lecture series can offer an excellent service to students and the public. An added potential benefit is to increase the library's visibility on campus.
YouTube is another example of "Audiovisual 2.0": this site has an amazing number of videos, mostly published by amateurs. There are a number of examples of libraries that have uploaded promotional videos for their services, but I think the best library videos on YouTube have at least a bit of humor to them:
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