Thursday, April 3, 2008

Hooray for RSS

I became familiar with RSS a few years ago, but had yet to experience it myself. I like the ease with which I was able to sign up on Bloglines and add feeds from my favorite sites. Like a lot of people, I spend time visiting each site every couple of days to see what's new. Not anymore... this is a great time saver! I also like how the feeds are formatted on the reader. It's clear and understandable. I plan to subscribe to feeds on professional websites (which directly affects my work life) and friends' blogs and other fun websites that I read at home. Perhaps libraries could have access to feeds from various research databases. Whenever a database is updated, the reference desk would immediately be notified. This would allow for more proficient customer service. This is a wonderful tool, I'm glad to have finally gotten on board!

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