RSS readers are great ways to keep up with online content from a centralized location. I have my reader at home as a pane in my iGoogle page, and rarely bother going to the actual blog sites anymore.
For the library, I know we already let people feed on our new acqusitions through the toolbar. It seems like a no-brainer. If you want to be aware of new holdings with particular keywords or by an author, why wouldn't you subscribe? If we were to add user accounts and let people review matierials, it would be nice to be able to feed particular reviewers' comments as well. Or maybe when a certain title become availabe at your local branch (for when you don't want it badly enough to request it, but want to look at it if it's around...). There are all kinds of useful things a library can do with RSS feeds!
I've been using the Google reader for a while, but thought I'd play with the Bloglines reader too for L&P.
Wow.
Bloglines is bad. Google's is much, much more intuitive and quick. I'll be transferring my Bloglines list to Reader ASAP. For the record though, my Blogline public account is linked here.
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Wow, that's highly advanced. Nothing my library will ever achieve. I think SPLCat is one of the worst in Canada I think. (http://saskatoonlibrary.ca\) We're so behind, it's pathetic. That said, I'm glad there isn't a better way to search for and request items because I do most of the processing of books on hold.
It's great to see that people still utilize the libraries, though. I never dreamed people would line up to get into a library first thing in the morning until I started working for one.
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