RSS Feeds & The Library

Imagine getting only the information/news on what interests you.  RSS feeds help you to do just that when you’re looking for news and information from the infinite resources of the Internet (news, blogs, etc.).  Sites such as Bloglines allow us to quickly subscribe to blogs and news sites that interest us so that we get only the latest content added to them.

The library has so much information to share with it’s users.  Lists of new books added to our collection, events at our locations and those that our staff participate in on behalf of CML, changes in services, new technology, are just a few topics that would be of interest to our users.  This could be way too much information for our users to sift thru and find the few things that they are interested in.  RSS feeds would allow users to quickly find out what’s happening in those particular areas that interest them.  I know I have many interests (librarianship is one and Library Stuff is one site with news and information of interest to me) and it is nigh on impossible to read each and every blog, news site, etc. every day to see if they have anything new for me and I know my supervisor and co-workers would not appreciate me spending all my time sifting thru every one to find out what’s going on.  I know now that I can use RSS feeds to simplify this, so that I get only the information/news that I want/need and get it at my convenience.

~ by madmanofght on September 4, 2008.