A lengthy article appeared in Econtent Magazine today, entitled, Can RSS Relieve Information Overload?. Our good buddy Karen Schneider is quoted in a sidebar (scroll down), which I'm quoting here in full:

"Karen Schneider is the library director for the state of California's library Web portal, Librarian's Index to the Internet. As a librarian, she's found RSS to be an invaluable research tool. She discovered RSS after reading about it in Peter Scott's library blog. She says she quickly realized how valuable RSS could be for rapid dissemination of information while at the same time, it reduces email. "This is the year that everyone has become fed up with email and more and more content has become available in RSS feeds," she says. In a short time, she joined the chorus of librarians singing the praises of RSS, even posting an RSS tutorial on her blog, The Free Range Librarian."

"She was amazed at how much material was available as RSS feeds. "I was stunned at what I can pick up: National Weather service, the New York Times [and many others]." She also monitors librarian blogs through her news aggregator. She says, "I spend a lot of time reading other librarian's blogs and feeds."

"Schneider, an adjunct professor at the library school at San Jose State, had a student who wrote an RSS feed for her lii.org Web site as a project. She plans to go live with an RSS link from her site in the near future. RSS is a natural fit for her Web site as it changes regularly. Instead of visiting each day to see what's new, RSS subscribers will know any time something new appears on the Web site, and for busy librarians, that's a big advantage."

As an aside, I'm glad to be reading about RSS in yet another InfoToday publication. Plus, I'll be speaking about RSS this week at the Computers in Libraries conference in D.C. (an InfoToday sponsored event). Yet, I wonder why Infotoday has yet to hop on the RSS bandwagon by providing feeds for their content? I would even be willing to look at a few ads to get summaries of the articles that they already provide for free. Oh well, I guess that's what the speakers cocktail party is for...to nudge, nudge, and nudge again. [Library Stuff]

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