RSS

RSS, an XML-based syndication feed technology, has emerged as an exciting new way to distribute news. It simplified greatly the process of gathering and organizing headlines, and allows those who are interested to receive automatic updates whenever something new has been added to a news story, website, or blog. This technology is being used by libraries as well. By aggregating several news feeds with RSS, a library can offer a variety of news sources to their users, either on their website or via a blog. On the flip side, they can offer to their users to receive updates whenever the library's site or blog has been revised: the user simply needs to subscribe to this service using RSS. Either way, we can benefit from RSS technology as library users.