But Which RSS Newsfeeds Does Libraryland Roundup Recommend?

We read a number of newsfeeds here at the 'ol Roundup. Anne takes time to scan and then share her feed with us! This makes finding items and posting a snap.

Of course, we humbly suggest

Libraryland Roundup
http://librarylandroundup.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Here are a few we couldn't do without, with their rss URLs:

VITAL TO LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
The Reader's Advisor Online Blog
http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/index.php/feed/

Stephen's Lighthouse
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/atom.xml

trendwatching.com
http://www.trendwatching.com/newsletter/rss.xml


Booklist Online - At Leisure with Joyce Saricks
http://www.booklistonline.com/At%20Leisure%20with%20Joyce%20Saricks.rss


Booklist Online - Read-alikes
http://www.booklistonline.com/Read-alikes.rss


Other Great Stuff

Gather No Dust
http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

librarian.net
http://librarian.net/feed

LibrarianInBlack
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/index.rdf


Library Journal - Collection Development
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryJournal-CollectionDevelopment


Library Journal - Genre Fiction
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryJournal-GenreFiction


Library Journal - Public Services
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryJournal-PublicServices

MCLC Library Tech Talk
http://mclctechtalk.wordpress.com/feed/

RA for All
http://raforall.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

RUSQ
http://www.rusq.org/index.php/feed/

WAMU: The Diane Rehm Show
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WAMU885DianeRehm

Srsly, You Need to Use RSS, Newsreaders

Keeping up-to-date is vital to library workers. What's coming up? What are topics your users are likely to ask for? How on earth does Libraryland Roundup find all these things?

The answer is a newsreader. No more trying to remember to visit a useful site! And newsreaders do not just carry rss from blogs! The Diane Rehm show on NPR has a newsfeed, CNN has a newsfeed, see USA Today bestseller lists as soon as they are published!

You can even see Libraryland Roundup posts as they go up.

It's easy to set up and easy to train yourself to check it daily, or at least frequently. Just think of it as email updates in a scanable format. You might want to consider making it as important as your email. There is some discussion on that.

But how oh how do you set this up? I'm going to show Google Reader only as it seems to have cornered the marketplace.

Here are some instructional pages
[PDF] Setting Up A Very Easy RSS Reader
How to Create a Google Account and Set Up Google Feed Reader ...

Caveat: With Google Reader you create an account. If you already have gmail you already have an account. This also gives you a gmail account. I would use your personal email to sign up. You'll probably find yourself falling into temptation and adding a few non-library feeds to read at home.

Here are some Youtube instructional videos as well.

Best Newsread Lately

As usual, Stephen Abram gives us tons of good things to think about, ponder, try out, and, most importantly, apply to our vision of libraries present and future.

I'm already completely won over by #11 - ebooks (especially audio) and #15 - RSS. I am getting anxious to try new ways of #4 tagging records in the catalog. For my library I'd love to see efficient ways of using #14 Cloud Software.


20 Things to Watch
via Stephen's Lighthouse by stephen on 3/7/08
So, what’s on my list of things to pay extra special attention to? When we’re deluged, swamped and overwhelmed by news and blog postings and other media, what do I use as my filter to trap just the important stuff that will matter to libraries? I am not going to purport that this column lists everything I pay attention to but it is a basic list of the things that I think will have a big impact on enterprises, libraries, information and librarians in the next five years. This article lists, in no particular order, 20 of the ones I think are worth watching. In the messy world of environmental and technology scanning nothing comes neatly packaged or sorted.
Information Outlook, Mar. 2008 Issue20 Things to Watch