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AALL Annual Meeting, Program K-4 Beyond the Blog: RSS, Wikis and Blikis Stay Current In Less Time With RSS Presented by Bonnie Shucha Reference & Electronic Services Librarian University of Wisconsin Law Library [email protected] How Do You Read Blogs? Good - As a Web page Stay current but requires reader to visit multiple sites daily to check for updates Better! - Via a RSS feed All updates are delivered Read multiple feeds in one place RSS What Is RSS? Rich Site Summary OR Really Simple Syndication See LawLibTech (Cindy Chick) RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS, http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html RSS News RSS Coming to Windows Microsoft recently announced that next Windows upgrade, called Longhorn, will incorporate RSS as core technology RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Law-Related Dockets Recent opinions Journal tables of contents Government agency news See TVC Alert’s RSS News Feeds for Law, http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Other Newspapers Custom News Alerts (Feedster) SEC Filings Product Recalls RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs Coming Soon? LexisNexis Westclip ECLIPSE – Already available with West IntraClip RSS Readers Turns RSS feed… … into something readable RSS Readers Click on button on blog or web site to get the URL for the feed Subscribe to the feed with a RSS reader which displays it in readable format With a RSS reader, multiple feeds are delivered to a single software or Web application RSS Readers RSS readers are also known as: RSS aggregators news readers news aggregators Free RSS Readers Web-based MyYahoo - http://my.yahoo.com/ Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com Pluck (Web or IE Plug-in) - http://www.pluck.com/ Free RSS Readers Software FeedReader RSS - http://www.feedreader.com/ Bandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/ Bloglines Free Web-based RSS reader Use to read: RSS feeds Email Listservs! Subscribe at http://www.bloglines.com/ Requires only an email address & password RSS Feeds Posts Drawbacks of RSS Readers Can’t easily reply to posts Posts not saved – unless you save them Watch privacy policies with free readers May get ads from some feeds or readers Predictions that spyware will soon invade RSS RSS “Anyone who needs to monitor current news on a regular basis will need to understand and use RSS in some form going forward.” Source: LawLibTech RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS, http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html Libraries as RSS Publishers Blogs with RSS Feeds 45 blogs associated with a library 17 blogs by law librarians 6 law library association or committee blogs For a list, see http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/blogslistpublic.htm Libraries as RSS Publishers Blogs with RSS Feeds Legal news & information Library events and announcements Course related Frequently Asked Reference Questions Libraries as RSS Publishers Other Types of RSS Feeds TOCs for Law Reviews/Journals Washington & Lee; Boley Law Library - Lewis & Clark Judicial Lillian Goldman Law Library - Yale Law School Library Nominations & Confirmations Publications WI Legislative Reference Bureau Library Libraries as RSS Publishers Other Types of RSS Feeds Automated feeds delivered from OPAC Items being held, checked out, etc. Recent acquisitions For a list, see http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/rsspublic.htm Questions? Contact Bonnie Shucha Reference & Electronic Services Librarian University of Wisconsin Law Library [email protected]