State Library of NSW and Australian Library and Information
Association are two examples I found of RSS feeds in action.
Both included news, events and media releases in their feeds. This is a
useful way for users to be updated on current happenings within the
organisation.
In addition, the State Library of NSW had collection feeds, alerting users
to new material added to the collection. Users are able to search new
acquisitions by subject, format, language or as a complete list. I can see this
feature being particularly useful for regular users of the library, as they
will be alerted to the latest acquisitions. An avid reader may come across an
acquisition of interest to them via the RSS feed that they may otherwise never
have discovered if just searching the catalogue.
ALIA had additional RSS feeds for job ads and training events. Users of ALIA’s
website may find these two feeds particularly relevant as members of the
association may be looking for employment or professional development and this
RSS feed will alert them to updates without them having to continually search
for it. The information will come to the user, rather than the user searching
for the information.
RSS feeds can bring new and exciting changes in the library to users without users having to go searching for something that they may not know exists.
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