RSS-Mania!!

This week is RSS feed week in Learning 2.0. I have been devoted to RSS feeds for over a year now. I first learned about Bloglines from a professor of mine in library school, and instantly I was in love! All the information I wanted, delivered to a centralized location, automatically updated, ability to save posts and share them with friends. Swoon!

I follow many blogs, from librarian colleagues to library news to technology news and trends to shoe blogs to the New York Times. It is quite efficient to subscribe to these feeds and read them in a centralized location. Bloglines also makes it easy to share with my friends and colleagues. I can email them an abstract or the full entry with my own comments. This makes it very easy and efficient to share things with either coworkers, colleagues, family and friends.

There are so many applications for RSS in libraries! We can push out new books and new dvds through RSS. Allow patrons to customize RSS feeds from the catalog based on subject headings or keywords to receive the latest materials that fall under the established search parameters. Or even displaying the latest DVDs or cooking books on the website. This would automate the updating process, and would be seamless. As soon as materials are received in our catalog, BANG! updated on the web page.