RSS is a new way of delivering and consuming information. Librarians and Libraries should exploit this technology to effectively promote the content they produce; help their users to select appropriate feeds; Re-Publish selective RSS feeds to cater special target groups and use this technology to keep themselves up-to-date in this era of Information Explosion.

1. RSS and its use in Libraries Sukhdev Singh

2. First of all let us see what RSS can do?

3. Even before that let us see how we can keep ourselves up-to-date in the Era of Internet

12. http://www.bloglines.com/

13. Even smart cell phones have means to read RSS

17. OK, we will take an example

19. Ok, we will use Google Reader as our RSS Reader for this example http://www.google.com/reader/

20. Login

22. Click on Add Subscription

24. Open a New Window in your browser go to the site i.e. NDTV.COM

25. Click on RSS button and Get URL of your RSS Feed for News

26. Just Look URL. COPY it with Ctrl + C

27. Paste the URL Here Ctrl+V

29. Now let us subscribe a blog! Remember M ost blogs are RSS enabled So no need to look for any Orange Button. Just enter the blog URL

30. Now let us add a feed from Blog now.

31. Repeat steps for Adding Subscription

33. To subscribe RSS Feed from any site Look for Orange Buttons Click and get the URL

35. Look for URL Above and Copy it.

36. Add Subscription

37. And it has been done!

38. You can also create / customize an RSS feed to suit interest. However the site should provide such facility Let us see how we can create an RSS Feed on PubMed Database Site on a Query

39. Now let us create a feed from PubMED

40. Enter your Query as you do normally.

42. Click on Create Feed

43. Look for Small Orange Icon – and Click it.

44. Copy the URL of the Feed.

45. Add Subscription

46. And no surprise, It is Done

47. You can Manage yours RSS Subscriptions

49. See them all at one place. No need to visit each site.

51. You can even Export or Import your subscriptions to / from Other Readers

52. We have seen the usefulness of RSS. Now let see what is this RSS?

53. Blogs Saved Searchers Social Bookmarking Wikis News Syndication Isn’t that R eally S imple?

56. RSS is written in XML language for syndicating information items on web.

57. XML Source Code of RSS <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;windows-1252&quot;?> <rss version=&quot;2.0&quot;> <channel> <title>NDTV News</title> <description></description> <language>en-us</language> <link>http://www.ndtv.com</link> <copyright>&#169; Copyright 2006, New Delhi Television Ltd.</copyright> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:13:17 GMT</pubDate> <category>National News</category> <image> <title>NDTVNews</title><url>http://www.ndtv.com/images/ndtv.gif</url> <link>http://www.ndtv.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed</title> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href=http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888><img align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/images/thumbnail/ver1/m/mapkarnataka1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed&quot; style=&quot;margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;width:70px;height:70px;&quot; /></a>A pilot of an Indian Kiran trainer jet was killed in a crash on Wednesday morning near Bidar in Karnataka. </p><br clear=&quot;all&quot; />]]></description> <link>http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888</link> <keywords>crash, pilot, Karnataka</keywords> </item> </channel> </rss>

58. RSS when viewed in Browser

68. How does RSS work? Content Provider Content Consumer

74. http://www.feedforall.com/download.htm

83. http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/makerss.pl

84. RSS enabled Publishing platforms Content managers Database based applications Modern Library Automation Softwares

86. WEB 2.0 Applications are RSS enabled

87. http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/List_of_web_2.0_applications

88. http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/the-100-top-web-apps-for-2008/

92. PERL Script used in OpenMED (EPRINTS) TO Generate RSS Feed

114. Generate an RSS Feed by suitable query

122. Libraries as consumer can subscribe to Feeds of Interest to Librarians

123. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=RSS

127. THANKS