blogs and rss feeds course 21 june 2007 london health libraries
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Blogs and RSS Feeds Course
21 June 2007
London Health Libraries
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Objectives
• Learnt how to set up a blog and create an RSS feed
• Be able to subscribe to RSS feeds and generate them from search resources
• Be aware of the different RSS readers and aggregators
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Blogs/ Weblogs• An electronic journal/diary organised by date where you can add
information easily
• Blogs tends to be a single webpage containing text and images, and increasingly now audio and video content
• Netscape What News is thought to be the first example of a weblog, and the word itself was coined by Jorn Barger, the owner of the Robot Wisdom weblog (http://www.robotwisdom.com/)
• Blog is short for weblog. A Blogger is the person producing the blog. Blogging is when you create the blog by posting an entry
• American librarian, Jenny Levine, began the first “library” blog in 1995. It was called Librarian’s Site Du Jour and she reviewed reference websites
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Examples of Blogs in Libraries
• Royal Free Hospital Library Bloghttp://rfhlibrary.blogspot.com
• Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Library Serviceshttp://sathlibraries.blogspot.com
• John Gale, Bethlem Library - Mental Health Update Blog http://mentalhealthupdate.blogspot.com/
• Fade the Blog – Health News from North West, including podcasthttp://www.fadetheblog2.blogspot.com/
• Chemistry Info @ Imperial College Library Londonhttp://libinfo.wordpress.com/
• Cambridge University Library Medical Library http://cambridgemedicallibrary.blogspot.com/
• DrugData Updatehttp://drugscope.blogspot.com
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Blogging Software:Web-based
Web-based Free Blogging Software
• Blogger - www.blogger.com (text editor, customisation, rss feed available)
• Bloglines - www.bloglines.com (rss feed available)
• LiveJournal - www.livejournal.com (customisation, rss feed)
• WordPress - http://wordpress.com/ (needs email activation, customisation, rss available)
• Xanga - www.xanga.com (text editor, customisation, subscription service available)
Also:
MS Windows Live Spaces - www.spaces.live.com
Yahoo 360 – www.360.yahoo.com
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National Library for HealthLibrary News Alert
The Health and Libraries & Information Services Directory have launched a blog and RSS tool. Further
information can be found in May’s NLH Newsletter. http://nlhcms.library.nhs.uk/nlhdocs/Newsletter_May_2007.pdf
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Blogger.comwww.blogger.com
• Create a Google account on blogger.com• Create a blog on blogger.com for your library,
applying a template design• Post some entries:
– Latest journal issues– New book stock– Advertising a library closure– Promote a training event
• Apply some advanced features, such as adding a blog archive
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RSS feeds – what are they?
• Provides updates on new web content such as news headlines, blog entries, eTOCs. Also new audio content and images can be embedded in a RSS feed, eg podcasts
• Need an RSS reader or aggregator to read them
• Written in XML format and are open source
• Several versions, including Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary and ATOM
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Why use RSS feeds?
• Save time, as only need to access one RSS reader or aggregator
• Unclutter your email inbox from email alerts
• Disseminate information about your library
• Create RSS feeds on specific topics
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Health Care Libraries NewsfeedOxford University Libraries
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/hcl
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Subscribing to an RSS feed
• The following icon means that a RSS feed is available on a website:
For example, on the BBC Health News website
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To subscribe to a RSS feed
• Click on the orange icon and following webpage appears
There are several ways to subscribe to the RSS feed. For example cut and paste the RSS URL into your reader/aggregator
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RSS Readers/ Aggregators
RSS Feeds can be read in:
• Web-based aggregators – need a username and password, but can be read on any PC
• Desk-top readers – software installed on PC and feeds download when connected to the internet
• Web browser – feeds can be read in a web browser
• Personalised start pages
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Web-based Aggregators
• Bloglines
(www.bloglines.com)
• NewsGator
(www.newsgator.com)
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Google Reader
(www.google.com/reader)
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Web Browsers
• Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 will store and display RSS feeds
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Personalised Page Starters
www.pageflakes.com www.netvibes.com
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Also National Library for HealthMyLibrary
(http://www.library.nhs.uk/mylibrary/)
NLH My Library displays RSS feeds and can
be accessed using Athens username and password
• Can also send My Update to email address
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RSS Feeds
• BBC News, including podcasts. Can subscribe to topics, eg Health News, Technology News
• Online newspapers, including podcasts. Eg The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph
• BMJ – Current issue, recent issues, online first• eTOCs from journals suppliers – Blackwells, Emerald• Podcasts – The Lancet, NEJM, New Scientist, Nature• National Library for Health, including Document of the
Week, Hitting the Headlines, What’s New• NICE Guidelines
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Generating RSS Feeds It is possible to generate RSS feeds on specific topics, using:
• News» Google News (http://news.google.com/)» Yahoo News (http://uk.yahoo.com/)
• Blogs» Ask (http://www.ask.com)» Sphere (http://www.sphere.com/)» Feedster (http://www.feedster.com/)» Technorati (http://technorati.com/)
• Medical» PubMed» MedWorm (http://www.medworm.com)
• Dialog Datastar Searches
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Mixing and Filtering RSS feeds
• Mixing RSS feeds from a several sources. Services from Yahoo Pipes, My Syndicaat and Feedblendr can do this
• Filtering RSS feeds means you can remove duplicate entries and block such fields as keywords. Feedrinse provides this service
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Use RSS Feed from Blog Example Blogger.com
• Set up blog & post entries
• Subscribe to blog through RSS Reader
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RSS Feeds
• Use Google username and password to open Google Reader
• Subscribe to some BBC feeds from their website
• Set up a PubMed RSS feed on a specific topic
• Create a Dialog Datastar search feed• Try a Google News/Yahoo News RSS feed