How can a library use RSS feeds? Hmmmmmm....
It seems to me the big advantage to using RSS feeds is the time it saves from having to go to several different sites to get what you want. We all know how busy everyone is, so why not give our users (students/faculty/staff) a little break and help them make all that "wasted" time available for something else?? Sounds like a good idea!
Our library currently has a "Health News" RSS feed on our web page to help keep people aware of the current happenings in the field of health/medicine. Not only is this 'tres' important to health care practitioners, teachers, researchers, and consumers, but this news feed helps our students become more informed of national and international issues realted to varied aspects of health care.
Specific subject oriented RSS feeds could be added to subject centered library links or pages... another resoure available to our users!
OK.... "What about individual patrons?", you ask....
Patrons (myself included!) can easily be taught how to create their own personal RSS feeds... quickly providing them access to the topics related to their interests...
whether it's news,
or TOCs to their favorite journals,
or an 'auto-alert' to articles in PubMed,
or keeping up with other blogs,
or the weather,
or what's going on at the museum!!!
WOW!! Get all this info in one place! How neat is that????
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