36 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 available. tor subscribed to that feed is notified there is new content sub various in pull which “readers”), called (also gators ● ● ● ● R Part 1:RSSinLibraries befound.”“RSS getsyoufound wouldn’t inplacesyounormally RSS HTML page), the RSS feed gets updated and any aggrega static a or database, events of calendar your post, a it’s (whether updated gets source the Whenever weblog sites], [Web news things) other (among by used is RSS various abbreviations used torefervarious abbreviations toRSS: in specified formats, place and display it in places, other such as in RSS aggre online content. our of most to” “get individuals, as we, way the change to poised method one-stop-shop a Web pages—with other and sites, news , from content access They’re to RSS using too.” feed, that get “I say, or ” “their ely Simple above—Really listed abbreviation first the as is RSS of think to way easiest the therefore, source—that on sits server the behind your Web presence; other or blog a content—from XML-encoded of back-end the is It place. one in them read you let to feeds scribed Real-Time Simple Syndication (RSS2.0) Real-Time SimpleSyndication Sum- Site Framework) Description (Resource RDF (RSS0.91,RSS1.0) Summary RichSite (RSS2.0) Really SimpleSyndication mary (RSS0.9and1.0) mary In plain English: RSS lets you create content in one in content create you lets RSS English: plain In According to Wikipedia, RSS is “a family of Chapter3 SS has been one of the mostpresent about, talked the of one been has SS closely to the plugged-in librarians who chat about chat who librarians plugged-in the to closely Listen late. of technologies utilized and about, ed and s podcastin XM g.” and used for used and L 1 The Wikipedia entry lists the the lists entry Wikipedia The Web syndicatio Web —Jenny Levine, Conversation, Community, Connection, and Collaboration: andCollaboration: Community, Conversation, Connection, —Jenny Levine, Syndication web fee Practical NewTechnologies Roadshow for User-Centered Services Practical n d . . - - - -

munity portals, munity organization portals, pages, and more. Slicing and things.” repetitive do—automate what computers stuff, and automated it. It’s a very predictable thing, that’s something lots of people do, visiting sites looking for new took We surfing. web automated it’s say I is, RSS what at author blog a and technology RSS of pioneers the of one Winer,Dave from is it, with experience haveno who folks to RSS ing the the library’s site—or anywhere: a university Web site, com Web pagessourcedisplayedwithin other and on its from “grabbed” be can feed RSS an code, simple some With Slicing &Dicing! ● ● ● we’ll chapter: reasons explore that inthis So your staff can subscribe to your feeds and other other and feeds your to subscribe can staff your So So your audience can subscribe to your feeds with an your dice and slice can you) (including anyone So www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/09/11 “Automated Web Surfing,” byDaveWiner http://scripting.com Scripting News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) June 2006 Definition, “RSS FileFormat,”Wikipedia Libraries should provide RSS feeds for three simple three for feeds RSS provide should Libraries My favorite definition, and one that’s useful for teach resources! aggregator! places! inmultiple content : “When people ask me ask people “When News: Scripting 2

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- - Conference in in Conference Computers in Libraries in Computers And the easiest way to do it is to startAnd the way easiest a blog! One One powerful use of RSS feeds from blogs, news advisory readers’ recommendations events current researching for resources images assignment alerts and databases new resources ! tor Bloglines. At the At Bloglines. tor about speak Levine Jenny and Cohen Steven heard I 2003, Joseph the St. to back came I current.” “keeping and RSS County Public Library and immediately planned classes ● ● ● ● ● ● All about Aggregators An surfing.” Web “automated to key the is aggregator The aggregator manages a user’s subscriptions to RSS feeds updatesand with contentnew auto sources various from matically. matically. This is one of the most important tools of Web 2.0, as it allows the user to quickly and efficiently her or him read ratherthanforcing place, one in sitesmultiple to manually click on every site, in hopes of finding new content. sites, and other sources is as a current-awareness/news- monitoring tool. One of the most beneficial tools I added to to added I tools beneficial most the of One tool. monitoring my arsenal is personal librarian’s the aggrega Web-based - - news headlines feed displayed on the right side of the page (www.illinoisclicks.org). page the of side right the on displayed feed headlines news Chicago Sun-Times Chicago your users . are Until libraryrecently,

What can libraries do with RSS? vide feeds of new materials added to your catalog and catalog your to added materials new of feeds vide other library content; and news feed for top headlines; for news feed What type of content could a library push out, via events new book lists news Display other feeds on your library’s site, such as a Syndicate your existing resources; for example, pro Let patrons slice and dice library content! Figure 11: Figure Illinois Clicks Index page. Notice the the Notice page. Index Clicks Illinois ever, now our content can be subscribed to and displayed displayed and subscribedcontentto be our can now ever, everywhere, and users are no longer to forced remember to come to our sites. feeds, feeds, from its Web site, making it available for users to subscribe to through an aggregator or for inclusion on suggestions: few are sites?other Here Web ● ● ● ● ● ● dicing the code allows information to can be content library’s your mashed means it up better, Even in ways. new now go out where content and resources could only be used library sites, in our Web proprietary (i.e., resources our catalogs, our databases, our Web sites). With the advent of RSS, how 38 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 something new), you just click once to log in to your ag your to in log toonce clickjust you new),something youto read. Instead of fifteen manual clicks (of hoping for for content new the in aggregatorbrings the new, thing eko vrin. n o te ot oua Web-based popular most the of One versions. desktop and Web-based varieties: two in come aggregators RSS Popular Aggregators know. the in be to order in aggregators use to how on especially for information junkies like librarians! ofthisapproach makes it aperfect current-awareness tool, listedinboldareso they type easy tospot). Theefficiency gregator and scan for new items (sites with new content are see which sites have new content. Whenever there is some to hour subscriptionsevery your of eachcheckingwork, the of all aggregatordoes the tool, new this using RSS: toeachsite. click through manually to available time of deal great a have to need would you and ads, pop-up with deal to have would you content, new was there if sure were never you that was course, of problem, The on). so and blogs, librarian sites, library pages, (news sites Web favorite your of fifteen ten to visit and computer, your to go library, your at rive Bloglines isapopular RSSfeedaggregator (www.bloglines.com). Figure 12: Imagine (remember?) the time before RSS: You’dbeforeRSS: ar time the (remember?) Imagine Now imagine this automated Web surfing concept with

- - - ● suchas: engines, searchRSS-specific these in as well course—as of Google, as such engines searchfound—in be already can it where content library’s your put can feed RSS an blog, a with Paired well. as advantages definite other some has RSS Library Services Taking AdvantageofRSSfor ● ● ● -feed-readers). Gruber Frank (www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/30/the-state-of-online by Readers” Feed Online of State “The byJenny Levine! list maintained se with reader the pre-populate to choice a includes and Java in runs which BlogBridge, and ) the (for NetNewsWire include solutions -based or Desktop Reader.Google and NewsGator include Others company. Ask aggregatorthe ownedfree, by a Bloglines, readersis lected feeds by experts—including experts—including by feeds lected Feedster, www.feedster.com Technorati, www.technorati.com BlogPulse,www.blogpulse.com PubSub,www.pubsub.com For a list of more Web-based RSS aggregators, see aggregators, RSS Web-based more of list a For irra’ Weblogs Librarian’s

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Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 39 - - - - - 4 - that search. that The DaVinci DaVinci The syndicate or or subscribe to subscribe Want to know when anything related to related anything when know to Want date or will an update another spawn RSS story? or feeds will need to Libraries follow. and RSS make very good bedfellows as the endless feeds of use Judicious shows. it about discussion is the key. Having a prefabricated routine generating these is a feeds very idea, for espe good a lot of them. create plan to if you cially There are a number of determinations you need to tent is suitable syndication? for feed content look like? Often times you’ll want feed data from the it is to on be presented differently way the Web. or as updatehourly, content nightly, is generated? If a lot of content is generated on a regular basis, you might want to consider digesting it so you don’t an subscribers.noy line calendar of events would benefit from providing feeds feeds providing from benefit would of events calendar line out of it in to order their syndicate events on other local model one at look Let’s aggregators. users’ in or sites Web feeds. library-generated pioneer helped has that library RSS an find you’ll results, search the of top the at and log, you lets that button make make when creating a library feed. Of course, there may be other questions you want to ask. you as this I’m of some pointingabout think to theseneed you’ll because out thesedevelop services. 1. Determining what should go in the feed. What con 2. should How the be formatted?feed What should the 3. often How updated?thebe should the Will feed feed 4. items update?feed Will items pre-syndicated Will up How Are Libraries Using RSS? How Are Libraries Using RSS? use to is RSS via there out content your getting to key The blog most as (such feeds generate that automatically tools contract) on or staff (on programmer a have to or ) to create feeds from your existing resources. The whole point is efficiency and recycling content you are already on an have that already libraries example, For generating. RSS at Hennepin County Library The Hennepin County Library (HCL) in Minnesota offers a variety of from feeds every almost piece of the library’s page home library’s the on Right site. Web database-driven also librarians HCL The news. library for button RSS an is maintain subject guides on a number of topics, and each calendar HCL the addition, In feed. RSS own its has guide of events provides feeds for keyword searches as well as events, book time, story as (such type program by searches events for teens). And as if that isn’t enough, HCL staff members homemade feeds have programmed from HCL’s in online catalog. Run search any the keyword HCL cata - - - -

In other words, it is 3 As Karen G. Schneider noted in her Free Range velop velop something that generates content, RSS In addition, the new RSS search engines offer much In “Taking Advantage of Web and Library 2.0” on his on Library2.0” and Web of Advantage “Taking In You might as well face the fact that if you de www..com/archives/2005/12/jenny _levine_jo.php “The State of Online Feed Readers,” by Frank Gruber www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/30/the-state-of BlogBridge www.blogbridge.com “Library Blogs on BlogBridge,” by Jenny Levine www.google.com/reader Desktop-Based NetNewsWire http://ranchero.com/netnewswire Bloglines www.bloglines.com NewsGator www.newsgator.com RSS Feed Aggregators RSS Feed Web-Based -online-feed-readers tent whenever your RSS feed is updated (as opposed to HTML pages). indexing of your less frequent Google’s Librarian Blog “Lists Versus Blogs: Wait and See” post, “Donning my Librarian Internet Index hat, we had a re educationmarkable when peo added we Now RSS feeds. ple find us through the blog-finding agents. Librarians, including me, suck at marketing, feeds, but we stumbled by onto a way adding for the RSS audience to find us, instead of the glacially slow process of dissemination through our existing readership.” more more current results, because they can index your con good to be found in as many places as possible, especially especially possible, as places many as in found be to good those places that the index content. current most blog (Blyberg.net), John Blyberg, network administrator Ann DistrictLibrary, Arbor Ann the at developer lead and Michigan, wrote: Arbor, 40 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 ing RSSfeed-display instruction: handout to audience members, which includesfollow the come toit! to you forcing of instead you, to comes content—it HCL new get to site Web HCL the to come to havelonger no add any of HCL these feeds to your aggregator, and you’ll fact, In notified! be you’ll it, in phrase that recordwith a aggregator. The next time a member of the HCL staff adds keyword yourto it add feed,and RSS a the of URL search,the grab perform Just catalog? the to added is Code Your Library’s Site How toDisplayFeedson feeds intoone) RSSMix— Feed onFeeds— RSSFeedMagic RSS FeedMagic— Magpie— LastRSS.php— .htm Blogfeed— server, lookat: When youwanttoparseRSSonyourlibrary’s www.bigbold.com/rssdigest RSS Digest(JavascriptorHTML)— Feedroll (Javascript)— (can alsoputonyourserver) Feed2JS— Javascript code,checkout: When youhavetorelyonsomeoneelsefor willgeneratenecessary codedisplaythe to head it andform,site’s the intofeedRSS anfor URL the plug Just software. configure and install to libraries that don’t have their own server or techie The first method is the easiest, especially for those n u Raso tus Jny eie rvds a provides Levine Jenny tours, Roadshow our On site. The tradeoff here is that this solution is is non-techies. for solution especially use, to easiest this that is here tradeoff The site. while it to tries grab the data from the Javascript loads page your quickly how down slow might it worse, Even page. your on display won’t lines head some on the down, You’redependent goes downside? it if The so service, else’s one every time the original site adds new content! update magically will and page your on appear live on the web, headlines from the RSS feed will code and paste it into your own HTML page. Once lines from the feed. All you have to do is copy that www.rssmix.com (combinesmultiple http://magpierss.sf.net http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed www.kalsey.com/tools/blogfeed/default http://lastrss.webdot.cz http://feedonfeeds.com http://dev.izibox.isa-geek.org/ www.feedroll.com

- - - - ing library Weblog intocoursewareing library content viaRSS: allows themtoreceivelibraryinformation primary benefitforpatronsisthatRSS information aboutthelibrary. Ithinkthe simply anothermethodforpublishing When Italktomystaff IdescribeRSSas Glenn Peterson,HennepinCountyLibrary, library websitetogetit. get ontheirowniftheymusttogothe that theymightotherwisebetoobusyto receiving informationaboutlibraryservices benefit forthelibraryisthatpatronsare the timeofreader.” Perhapsthetop Ranganathan’s FourthLawinaction:“Save in thewaythatbestsuitsthem.RSSis Hennepin County, Minnesota aggregation, social networking, and search per search and networking, social aggregation, news blogging, of technologies evolving rapidly the in in education library and about awareness the creating for role leadership a seizing is coursewareto blogging libraries for benefit One someone install the software (Magpie, for exam for (Magpie, software the install someone requirewill resources. It and time staff for need two the of safer the is method second The and is more will efficient, be tradeoff but the the Librarian Steven Bell Librarian discovered of feed benefits the the classroom. the beyond world the and content course between excellent way to help students make connections principles into his course, chemistry finding it an scientific of applications practical everyday, the about blog a from postings feed to wanted sor profes science a example, For disciplines. their about learn students help aggregatorscan news and RSS, blogs, how understanding in interest an expressed members faculty Several nology. tech RSS in interest faculty sparking of benefit added courseware to producedblogging has the community, academic own my In sonalization. already orposting. creating you’re information reuse to opportunity the of advantage taking section, another on site your of section one from content own your display it more dynamic and interesting. Or, you can just youuse, method make However,which can matter no site your on feeds external displaying codeinyour HTMLpages.embed the ple, is one of the most popular), configure it, and 6 5

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m); it displays, on one all staff members—is to m ), libraries can build a build can libraries m), The most important thing tinue to promote your feeds every chance you get. every you tinue feeds chance your to promote ing opens up a valuable, timesaving tool for them. library The for same goes users. Turn them onto the con and classes, in feeds own your tout RSS, of ease it a page on our Web site (say, a “new mystery brarians can customize recommendations for their industries or organizations. It is just really an exten sion of the traditional role of trusted guide that we our patrons. for played always have Thanks to many of the new tools we’re discussing, Train staff and users! staff—forcan your you do for It allows us to get new stuff out to subscribers. Patrons necessarilywouldn’t continuously revis For example, Jenny Levine built an example communi example an built Levine Jenny example, For show show them how to aggregate RSS feeds. That train Public Library SuprGlu: Piecing Your Web Together Web Your SuprGlu: Piecing www.suprglu.com Community Portal: La Grange Park http://shiftedlibrarian.suprglu.co t), and headlines from the local newspaper. Because

munity portal for local information without ever forcing users to learn about RSS, XML, or aggregators. cally, always updatingalways cally, whenever new content is added to any of the sources. It cost nothing to set this up, other than an hour of time to create the SuprGlu account, find the RSS feeds, enter them into SuprGlu, and choose template.a Now the Library can link to this site as a com librarians also thehave chance to easily create portals of information so that users don’t have the time or desire to learn about all of this. Thanks to syndication and sites (www.suprglu.coSuprGlu as such it is all built on RSS feeds, the site runs itself automati David King on RSS What theare benefits of RSS your library?for According to David King (blogger and acting Kansas City Public Library): IT director at the (http://shiftedlibrarian.suprglu.co .ne ● users to it. Web page, headlines from the library’s blog, pictures from from pictures blog, library’sthe from headlines page, Web thelibrary’s from bookmarks account, thelibrary’sFlickr del.icio.us account, events from the library’s calendar, localized news from Topix.net (http://topix ty portal for the La Grange Park Public Library in Illinois Libraryin Public Park tyGrange theportalLa for one-stop site of aggregated feeds for free and simply point simply and free for feeds aggregated of site one-stop - - - l), while tate RSS for our users, many of which draw upon our traditional roles and skills as a profession. collectionFor in engaged always have librarians example, development, and we can fill a need for our patrons in this area with RSS. We are trained evaluate to find authoritative and and useful authoritativefind we useful if and what so users, our information for RSS feeds for them? For those users that want learn about aggregators or who to like to do things for and feeds relevant themfind help can we themselves, recommend can librarians Science them. to subscribe science feeds for their local communities (as Emily Alling has done at the University of Massachusetts, http://people.umass.edu/ealling/feeds.htm Determine Determine if your library would like to RSS-fed build portal an or offer a list of starter your users. feeds There are many ways libraries for can facili Look for places RSS can save you lots of valuable time. Does an individual on your library’s staff type up new arrivals to the library collection and weekly, then create Web pages or e-mail that content? Find to ways automate this with RSS (a blog announcing new material in the library collection is the easiest) hours of staff timeand save yearly. Your library staff will need to decide if the library is library the if decide to need will stafflibrary Your going to display another entity’s/institution’s RSS feed(s) or generate RSS feeds . internally It may be easier to start with simply displaying feeds on your library’s site. Adding a blog automatically gives your library a feed. Jay Jay Bhatt Universityfrom Drexel is taking it further; public librarians can localize content and recommend recommend and content localize can librarians public feeds of interest to the local community. School and academic librarians can recommend lists of feeds for class projects or entire departments. And special li

● ● Use these steps to get started toward offering and using library. RSS at your ● Part 2: Implementing RSS he is aggregating topical RSS feeds from authentic from sourc feeds RSS topical aggregating is he es (such as Tables of Contents from Ingenta’s serials) into serials) Ingenta’s Contents from of Tables as (such es specific courses. This becomes a very powerful embed library way resources where to the students already are, pulling together relevant information from the library’s catalog, databases, and external, librarian-endorsed sites. teach to aggregators RSS using also is Bhattoff, it top To students how to evaluate and flow. In filter other words, their he’s teaching information information literacy According working. it’s And Bloglines! of theuse through to Bhatt, “My consultations with students most times of result in the students creating Bloglines account and adding feeds.” 42 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 ● ● ● (www.kclibrary.org/guides). RSSis: that King notes “Guides” Library’s Public A good example of a use library of RSS is the Kansas City What HaveYou Learned? Terms,of Internet www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/161/report &AmericanLifeProject,Pew Internet PublicAwareness “phishing” means. an RSSfeeddoes,orwhattheterm is notsurewhatpodcastingis, The averageAmericanInternetuser _display.asp library’s subject guides.(www.kclibrary.org/guides) The KansasCityPublicLibraryoffers RSSfeedsfrom manyofthe Figure 13: For them to be heavily used, we need to advertise advertise to need we used, heavily be to them For them, to subscribe and feeds our find will Patrons RSS is a great way to push out a variety of content to adopter ofRSSfeeds. early an were we too—since attention, national some our and library our brought have feeds RSS our say to have also Honestly,I’d to. want we whatever them send can them—and in our to subscribed via RSS, we patrons in essence have a “hook” attract to way another It’s and library introduce them to our Onceservices. too. events, related any also but books/materials, new only our new to Wematerials them. can push out not for our page.mystery That allows us to push out feed RSS an to subscribe will they But things. novel” page)—they’re much too busy doing other done any of this, unfortunately). done any ofthis, havenot (we library the of outside and them—inside them even ifwe don'tadvertise our patrons

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- - 28, no. 4 (2004): 52–5. of feeds targeted at their various audiences, such as medi as such audiences, theirvarious at targeted feeds of possibilities The libraries. law for news legal libraries, rate are endless, and it gives you the chance to recommend teach just information appropriatefeeds, even literacy,or in the some leadership of technology!show area “Feed “Feed for Thought,” Burning Feedburner Blog, Questions:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburn The Official Resources on RSS Resources Darlene Fichter, “Using RSS to Create New Online Services,” 5, 2006). (accessed June er/archives/001518. Kevin Hale, “The Importance (June of RSS,” 13, Particle 2005), Tree -importance-of-/ (accessed June 5, 2006). http://particletree.com/features/the cal news for hospital libraries, industry news for corpo - - - Web sites. Web their

Be sure to your market feeds to others in your local Subscribe to your library’s RSS feeds in a person Figure 14: Figure Librarian’s Internet a detailed explanation of RSS (http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/understandingrss.htm) Index provides Librarian’s ally ally created (or one created, for example, for the entire library staff) aggregator, so you can see what your read ers see. Sometimes the formatting in a post is a little off, and the text doesn’t appear quite right in an aggregator. staff your and you allow will feeds library’s your Checking members to discover any problems your users are seeing and immediately correct them. Plus, it helps with typos, grammatical etc. errors, community! Public libraries can talk to local government otherdistrict,sportsand entities, schools, clubs, thepark on content library displaying about bodies specific to feeds market can libraries academic and School departments, class projects, and throughout the institu wealth a offer can libraries Special site. portal/Web tional link at Librarians’ Internet Index (lii.org) and the Kansas City Public Library’s subject guides (www.kclibrary.org/ guides/computers). 44 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July—August 2006 1. “RSS ,” Wikipedia Entry, http://en.wikipedia Entry, Wikipedia Format,” File “RSS 1. Notes by (accessed June5,2006). Up Keeping Head: Your RSS,” Using “Feed Tennant, Roy June 5,2006). www.idealliance.org/ (2005), proceedings/xml05/ship/152/rssRemixing.html Alliance and (accessed Present, Idea Past, Future,” RSS: “Remixing Tanglao, Roland (accessedJune5,2006). sereport/article.php/2175271 http://searchenginewatch.com/ 2003), 3, (April Watch SearchEngine Feed,” RSS an “Making Sullivan, Danny -etc-etc (accessedJune5,2006). -some-news-and-some-podcasts-and-some-flickrs-photos bloglines-how-to-keep-track-of-hundreds-of-blogs-and 2005), 25, (April Blog http://preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/04/25/ Up Betterdays Keep Blogs,” to of How Dozens (Or Bloglines “Using Rai, Preetam www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443.html www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443.html .org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) (accessedJune5,2006). irr Journal Library 2, o 9 20) 30, (2003): 9 no. 128,

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