At last----Round 2

This entry is part of the RCPL ETC Tech Challenge


Week 2 Mission: RSS


After setting up a blogline account and subscribing to several feeds, I learned that it would be very easy to spend most of my free time reading interesting things written by people I do not know, but feel like they are one of my best friends. Maybe I should trim the list! Because of all the quilting feeds, here is no time to quilt. I am sure that I will continue to read most of the feeds daily. What great fun.

As far as how RCPL can use RSS feeds, I think that they would be useful for patrons that want to keep up with selected information provided by the library. Of course for me it would be very useful for children's content -- programs, book reviews, award winner lists, bibliographies for parents and teachers, etc. If I understand the concept correctly, it would provide a very specific "one stop shopping" selection for individual patrons. Some of the feeds from Harris County Library were wonderful.

Roy Tennant states in his article Feed Your Head: Keeping Up By Using RSS " Wouldn't it be nice if you could filter all this stuff and receive brief notes for what interests you?" Wouldn't this be useful to all of us trying to keep up in the new tech age.