RSS Feeds

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Posted by Linda W. Braun

If you are a regular reader of this blog you might want to use the RSS feeds to keep up with new posts and comments. If you haven’t used RSS feeds before this is a perfect opportunity to get started with them. You could find that feeds help you keep up with what’s happening on topics in which you are interested. I subscribe to lots of technology and library feeds and through them I quickly and easily find out about new and interesting developments in those fields.

Library websites incorporate RSS feeds so users get information about what’s happening in the library pushed to them. Database vendors are beginning to integrate RSS. With RSS enabled databases, researchers get notified when new information is added to the database on a specific research topic.

To subscribe to feeds you need a feed reader – you can use something that’s web-based or a special piece of software. Find out more about RSS and how you can use it read Will Richardson’s RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators.

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About Linda W Braun

Linda W Braun is a YALSA Past President, the YALSA CE Consultant, and a learning consultant/project management coordinator at LEO: Librarians & Educators Online.

4 Thoughts on “RSS Feeds”

  1. C. Allen Nichols [Visitor] on February 3, 2006 at 7:28 pm said:

    As always Linda, you teach me what I need to know about technology. Thanks! Allen

  2. ayucht [Member] on June 5, 2006 at 1:42 pm said:

    for a tutorial on how to use Bloglines as your feed reader, and a list of recommended blogs for Youth Services Librarians, check out:

    http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Aliceinfoshow2rss

  3. S. S. [Visitor] on October 15, 2007 at 2:10 am said:

    Thanks for all the info

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