OMG! RSS SOS!
Location: Gwynedd Mercy College
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Handout (PDF): Subscribing to an RSS Feed using Google Reader: Quick Reference Guide
RSS in Plain English by CommonCraft
I. Keeping Up Using RSS
First Subscriptions
- TCLC: RSS Feed URL - http://tclclibs.org/rss.xml
- iLibrarian: RSS Feed URL - http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/feed/
Finding Feeds:
News Sources
Blogs
Listservs
- All of the discussion lists offered through ALA have RSS available. To see the complete list and get the feed address for each one visit, lists.ala.org/wws/lists
- To see if a listserv to which you subscribe offers an RSS feed, go to the web page for that listserv. You may need to go to the archives page to see the RSS.
Pages that you already check or have bookmarked
- Employment websites. Example: The Philadelphia Inquirer Online
- Real Estate websites. Example: realtor.com
- Podcasts, Webcasts, Radio: Example: npr.org
- Weather.com
Databases
Create Your Own Feeds
Recommended RSS Feeds for Librarians
Reading Feeds
II. RSS Feeds Outside of the Reader
- Emailing feeds using Feedburner
- Embedding RSS feeds into web pages | Example: http://www.mc3.edu/sa/lib/lrc.htm and http://faculty.mc3.edu/lmccoll/index.htm
- Creating your own blog built of feeds in Google Reader.
III. Offering RSS Feeds to Your Patrons
- Your library may already offer RSS feeds. Many database vendors provide them now. Here is a list of some that do.
- Library blogs
- RSS feeds and the online catalog
- Some online catalog products offer RSS feeds as part of the system: VUFind; Sirsi Rooms; Koha (Open Source ILS)
- New books using your library with your catalog and Page2Rss.com. Example. Canned Search: http://sirsiweb.mc3.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/CENTRAL/0/5/?location=GRAPHNOVEL
- New books in the library with WorldCat or LibraryThing - Using Google Shared items to create a "Should we buy this?" feed for faculty.
- Tracking usage of feeds that you have created with Feedburner.