1. A method for asynchronous communications, the method comprising: receiving at a library management system a recorded speech message from a call of a sender to a handheld device of a recipient, wherein the recorded speech message was recorded by the sender for the recipient to listen to on the handheld device, and wherein the sender is a first human user and the recipient is a second human user; converting the recorded speech message to text; identifying a recipient of the recorded speech message in dependence upon the text; extracting keywords from the text; searching content under management for the keywords; associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text, wherein associating the recorded speech message with content under management by a library management system in dependence upon the text further comprises identifying the associated content based on one or more of the keywords matching a title or metadata identification of the content under management; and storing the recorded speech message and the associated content for transmission to another handheld device for the recipient.