I enrolled in the Medical Libray Association’s Web 2.0 101 course. Over the next eight weeks, I’ll be learning about a variety of Web 2.0 technologies. The first week of the course is focused on blogs and RSS feeds.
In response to the questions: How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library? How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds?
RSS feeds are particularly helpful for me to keep up with the professional (library) literature. Since I also serve as liaison to the School of Dental Medicine, RSS feeds are a useful way for me to keep up with the latest dental literature.
Patrons would benefit from RSS feeds, understandably, because they enable an easy way to keep up with new information. Although it is relatively easy to set up a RSS feed reader and feeds, I don’t see my dental faculty necessarily taking the time to do so, most likely because they lack the technology skills or confidence. However, if I were to set up the reader and feeds, they might be more inclined to take advantage of this service. This is something that I might investigate in the near future.
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