RSS is beginning to become a part of the library environment....
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This toolkit was published recently by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA)...
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A few articles out recently have been extolling the virtues and benefits of RSS for libraries. I briefly discuss Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience and a review of Weblogs and Libraries. I hope to get to Service Autodiscovery for Rapid Information Movement soon....
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These are the readings that informed the project report. While this is not an authoritative set of references on RSS in Australian special libraries, I hope others interested in the topic will find it useful....
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The site began as a project at UTS. These are the report recommendations from that project, submitted today; a summary of the site and its academic context this far. Using or publishing syndicated content is not popular amongst Australian special libraries, nor with libraries worldwide. While some institutions in the U.S.A. have made promising use of RSS, only a few Australian libraries use any syndicated content at all. Having demonstrated their potential, the overall goal of the project has developed to advocating uptake of syndication tools to librarians....
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For the first few months of its existence, this project has operated without any real theoretical framework, without a starting point for thinking about the issues involved, for framing or suggesting effective solutions. 'Information ecology' appears to be well suited to discussing technology-driven changes in libraries. In particular, I've enjoyed reading Nardi and O'Day's Information ecologies: Using Technology with Heart for its calm exposition of a metaphor that's a great fit for today's information jungle....
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Since examining how some Australian special libraries could enhance their online reader services (based on a list derived from Libdex), I've browsed a few other special library sites to investigate how institutions are syndication technologies....
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This article is a placeholder for comments about the new way of surfing the net that syndicated technologies are opening up....
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A response to Zeki Çelikbaş, Librarian at ITU, Turkey It was great to see Zeki's essay recently examining some of the background and advantages of using RSS in libraries. And from one of the most beautiful cities I know, too....
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Those of you who come to the site to read the content (rather than accessing it through RSS - see the 'Syndicate' section on the right side of the page for more options) will notice that I use comments to store ideas and references for further articles. I hope this doesn't disencourage you from adding your own thoughts: your feedback has always been great. Unfortunately, spammers have been hitting the site lately, so I've enlisted the help of Elise and Jay Allen's MT_Blacklist....
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The following links are to be used in the presentation of this project to fellow Masters students, their supervisors and friends on Wednesday evening, 10 November 2004, at UTS....
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What is it about the online environment at the moment that makes syndication technologies a powerful tool for libraries? Are there unanswered information needs among patrons? What role do librarians have to play in facilitating access to and helping navigate the web? What sort of opportunities do the explosion of blogs and syndicated content present for libraries? I argue that while such information needs are likely to exist, they are yet to be demonstrated, and that libraries - particularly research and special libraries - are ideally placed to...
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RSS can assist with information overload, but it's a double-edged sword. By becomng more efficient in parsing internet content, the inevitable temptation is to view more interesting sites, so that the benefits of efficiency can be quickly eroded by increased breadth of content. While this is arguably a better situation to find oneself in (better tools make the trade-off between time and content more efficient), the initial problem (information overload) remains....
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Which syndication technologies are of greatest use to Australian special libraries? Some of the reasons for adopting RSS in the online environment of a library are listed here. Once syndicated content is offered in one area, it is likely to be much easier to implement in another, whether for librarians or for patrons....
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An investigation into the feasibility of using syndication technologies in Australian special libraries. This project was begun in early 2004 in the belief that a new information need was arising, in tandem with the rise in popularity of syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. In what has been described as an era when 'content is no longer king - context is', the rise and rise of blogs and news syndication have created a new type of information online. Many tools and types of feed exist, all offering...
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