Saturday, December 1, 2007

#8 RSS and Bloglines

What I like about RSS is that you can specify your interest area in as broad or narrow context as you find useful. Forexample, The Age provides you with an option of subscribing to local news feeds, political feeds, internationsl feeds etc. I have found this particularly useful during the recent election campaign.

I believe that Library Land will become a lot more accessible to groups of patrons who currently do not use the services, if RSS feeds were available. First of all I am thinking about general virtual visibility and secondly I am referring to the use and knowledge of our online databases. RSS is another way of making patrons and patrons-to-be aware of or great resources.

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