RSS Feeds

This is one of those things I have heard a lot about but as of yet have not had a lot of personal practical application. I can see the benefits this service could offer for individuals who have a need or desire to keep up with what is happening on a great number of websites, as more and more we find ourselves dealing with information overload. In playing around with it I found Bloglines a little clunky to maneuver around in at first, and some of the sites (blogs) I tried to add were giving me error messages, not adding the way they were supposed to. I finally started to get the hang of it as I became more familiar with it.

At this time I cannot think of any immediate use for this techonology for my worklife, although it could become a useful tool for keeping up-to-date on library journals and publications. In my personal life there are a number of sites and boards I regularly visit, and I think I may give it a whirl to see how I like it and how well it might work for me as an information center.

I think that librarians who work at reference centers might find RSS feeds particularly useful for keeping up with information they use in their particular areas of expertise.