Tame the Web this week has a great little guide on Teaching RSS to Reference Librarians. He’s got great links to other resources that will educate and inspire librarians to get excited about RSS. The Kansas City Public Library System and the Minneapolis Public Library are good examples of public libraries that have embraced RSS, but so many are starting to use it these days. Still, I find a lot of people in the library field who don’t know what RSS is. The director of SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network) came to speak to one of my classes this semester and, when asked, said he had no idea what RSS was. SEFLIN’s goal is “to pioneer innovative technology to deliver optimum library services to Southeast Florida.” Doesn’t bode well for my part of the world, now does it?
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Meredith Farkas
12/2/2004
Last updated on 12/2/2004
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.
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