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Part of that has been finding a service to follow all the feeds I subscribe to. I hope you’ll consider using a feed reader to expand your current awareness, in an efficient and effective (and enjoyable!) way.Online feed readers reviewed Published on Thursday, January 12, 2006Īs of lately, I’ve been trying to move my program/service usage online more and more, to make it accessible from any computer and also not to lose information in case of a computer crash. Any one of our librarians can help you construct a search to capture your interests. Each time an item is added to the catalog that matches my search, a link to the record for that item will appear in my feed. I can construct and execute a search in SearchWorks (to see all items related to Wagner's Ring, for example, or recordings of Chopin Ballades) and then copy and paste the url into Feedly. This is a great way to keep current with our journals in particular, it is a great way to keep current with the increasing number of titles that we receive only in digital form. Online journals provide rss feeds that will display the table of contents of new issues as they are released. It takes mere moments to get up to speed on all the news that may be relevant to my workday, my projects, my Facebook followers, and my music and library colleagues. I can scan hundreds of items at a glance and then decide what to read, what to save or share, and what to delete. I make a habit of checking my feed list each morning, just as I do my email. I follow feeds from the music and library worlds, Stanford, higher education, technology, and the recording industry, along with a few sites of personal interest (cooking, movies, lgbt news). Some feed readers (such as Feedly) allow you to simply paste a site’s url into the “add content” box.įollowing news blogs and topical posts is the most popular way feed readers are used. Websites that offer rss feeds have a feed icon, which will provide the link to their feed. Some feed readers also recommend other feeds of interest based on the contents in my folders. I can customize the look and feel of the site, choose how much or how little of the results I want to see displayed, and even how I want the display to look. My feed reader lets me create folders for different topics, save items for future reading, share items by email or social networking tools, and mark items to be deleted. Oh, and it’s free!įeeds can be generated from different kinds of sources, including websites, blogs, online magazines and journals, news reporting sites, and library catalogs. When I subscribe to a feed, new content is automatically sent to my feed reader as soon as it is made available, 24/7. A feed reader lets me gather, organize, and edit these various streams of new content links in a single, user-friendly interface ( I use Feedly). RSS (Rich Site Summary, or Real Simple Syndication) is a mechanism by which a digital information source sends out links to newly added content. Using a feed reader is an efficient way of staying current on topics of interest.