RSS and newsreaders are a concise, quick, and convenient way of keeping up with frequently changing information on a variety of websites. Their convenience and ease of use make them an essential tool for anyone that needs to stay on track of frequently changing information. Libraries can use this technology to help their customers stay on top of programs and classes offered at the library, the status of their accounts, and new material available in the collection, to name some of the most obvious examples. One library system that is already making extensive use of RSS technology is the Hennepin County Public Library in Minnesota:
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm
The number of feeds on my public Bloglines account is rather sparse at the moment.
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