Week 6 - RSS feeds, readers and finding feeds.
Setting up the Google feed reader was very easy. I added feeds from some news and library sites & blogs. Feeds are a good way to save time by not having to revisit sites to see if there are any updates of interest. Having said that it still takes time just to keep up with the RSS feeds themselves, although the manage features in Google Reader do help.
I tried some of the feed search tools - one of them, Feedster, seems to be out of action at the moment. I did find some interesting library blogs using Technorati.
Library users would benefit from setting up feeds from library web sites and relevant databases and ejournals to keep up with new resources. Libraries could use RSS news feeds to help promote their resources and events. RSS feeds from subject specific library blogs would be very useful for students.