RSS

A great practical assignment for week 4! It's so good to know how to create a feed to a PubMed search as well as know how to receive the latest updates for a specific journal of interest!

I'm quite intrigued by the RSS/Javascript conversion tool, Feed2JS, as well as the RSS remixer. These could be used to create useful search links on some of Colonial Library's Hot Topics pages. Are these tools readily available? How do we find out more about implementing these on our library webpages?

RSS could replace much of the need for manually sending journal TOCs. I suppose it's really just a matter of promoting this technology to patrons and showing them how easy it is to use. I can see a possible patron preference for receiving a prompt by e-mail over remembering to check an RSS reader, however, most everybody experiences frustration from overloaded inboxes and RSS readers can save them some angst (one just needs to figure out how to organize all the feeds).