I made an account in Bloglines and added RSS feeds for local news, news from my home town back in PA, library blogs, book reviews, and local weather. After playing around with the concepts of RSS feeds I feel that they can be useful within the library setting in two ways. First, they are beneficial to the staff because we can use them to keep up with the most current library news and issues without spending a lot of time (which none of us have) searching for this information. Secondly, libraries can create RSS feeds for patrons to subscribe to. These would cover library news, listings for upcoming programs, etc. In this way the patron would not need to check our website regularly (since many of them also don’t have time). What it comes down to is the use of RSS feeds in the library setting can save a lot of time for everyone.
When it comes to my personal internet use I find that RSS feeds don’t help me as much. A lot of what I do on line for fun includes browsing online shopping sites to see what is new or on sale and social networking on Facebook. So far I haven’t found any RSS feeds that relate to the websites I use the most in my personal life. It would be nice to have an RSS feed from stores about sales etc. If anyone has found that I am wrong and these do exist please let me know!
When it comes to my personal internet use I find that RSS feeds don’t help me as much. A lot of what I do on line for fun includes browsing online shopping sites to see what is new or on sale and social networking on Facebook. So far I haven’t found any RSS feeds that relate to the websites I use the most in my personal life. It would be nice to have an RSS feed from stores about sales etc. If anyone has found that I am wrong and these do exist please let me know!
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