Friday, March 20, 2009

Week 3: RSS

I have heard about RSS for quite a while, but did not know how it works. Thanks to Pollak-Library-10-Thing training program, I have a better understanding now. RSS is cool. This web feature allows you to get current updates from your favorite sites without having to click through each site.

I only briefly dipped my toes into RSS, but I have a feeling that RSS feeds can be integrated into the library’s web content to provide value added library services. Patrons can view new content from multiple web sites in a single interface. For example, we might be able to offer RSS feeds of new articles on a specific topic from many journals, or new search result in many library databases.

2 comments:

  1. Common Craft is cool and really useful...how long has it been around?

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  2. i think we will see a lot more RSS everywhere

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