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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]