Saturday, May 29, 2010

What are you reading?

LibraryThing, Shelfari, and GoodReads are all social sites that allow you to share your reading experiences with friends.  All three offer a way to discuss books online. The Adult Services Steering Committee has discussed the possibility of using an online book discussion via one of these sites for readers advisory training. What do you think?

Saturday, May 15, 2010

RSS and News Feeds

Challenge: keeping up with all the internet information news updates that I would like to follow
Solution: subscribe to sites of interest and manage the subscriptions with on a feed aggregator such as Google Reader.


Since the 23 Things training was developed, RSS and newsfeeds have come a long way. In 2004, CNET was reviewing applications that you installed on your computer to subscribe to newsfeeds. Today, you can create an account on the web to track your feeds and the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox allow you to subscribe to newsfeeds without any additional software.  You'll find instructions for using RSS feeds with Internet Explorer's on Microsoft's website.   Google Reader is another option for maintaining a list of feeds.