How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library?
- For Patrons
- Biomedical News folder containing a short, select list RSS biomedical news feeds . It could include those that are general (as New England Journal of Medicine) or would be of interest to a large population (as germane to a center of excellence at one’s institution)
Medworm.com would be a good source to use - RSS feeds published by health care providers as physicians and nurses
Bloglines.com has a search for feeds feature, I bet there are other services! - One could generate feed at one’s libary (alone or with colleagues) that
would announce services (as instructional sessions), new books, newly subscribed databases, databases with new interfaces, onsite technical
glitches, Internet resources of note, [similar to our library's blog] - Podcasts , audio, and video RSS feeds as described in Make Your Own “Medical Journal” with iGoogle Personalized Pages
- Biomedical News folder containing a short, select list RSS biomedical news feeds . It could include those that are general (as New England Journal of Medicine) or would be of interest to a large population (as germane to a center of excellence at one’s institution)
- By Staff (“Staff only” RSS feed )
- Staff members could contribute by posting relevant items and discuss them, as professional journalarticles, committee business, challenging reference questions
- RSS feeds of relevant professional journals could be included
- Individual Staff Members
- Subscribe to RSS feeds of interest using sites as MedLib blogs
- Share RSS feeds with others to discuss items of common interest
How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds?
- Patrons could use use a news aggregator to set up their own feeds in areasof interest to them, which hopefully would include their library!
- Patrons could leave comments on their library generated RSS feed as podcasts,news articles, challenges with searching new databases or new database interfaces,
and their thoughts on advertised library instructional sessions. [However, spamming could be a problem!]
MLA
- MLA generated feed could include breaking news items (as government actions, pending legislation), perhaps with option to comment by MLA members
- RSS feeds that would be of interest to most, or some (subfolders)
as journal feeds, libary related feeds
