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Exploring RSS: A Game Changer for Libraries and Information Access

This article delves into the significance of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) for libraries and information dissemination. Despite only 5% of Internet users utilizing RSS as of 2005, major platforms like Google, Yahoo!, and various news outlets have embraced it. This technology offers users personalized content, making information access seamless and efficient. The article highlights the rapid growth and positive reception of RSS, emphasizing its role in modernizing how libraries and users interact with digital content.

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Exploring RSS: A Game Changer for Libraries and Information Access

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  1. <RSS> <title>RSS for libraries</title> <dc:creator>casey.durfee@spl.org</dc:creator> <dc:date>2005-08-05</dc:date>

  2. RSS in My Yahoo!

  3. RSS in Firefox

  4. RSS to the naked eye

  5. How come I’ve never heard of it? • Only 5% of Internet users 1/1/2005 use RSS • Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, MSN, AOL, most every major newspaper, weblog, and radio station in the world are behind it • Firefox and Safari browsers support it • IE 7.0 supports it • Koha, Talis support, Sirsi, III will support

  6. If you build it, they will come • Originally put together because it was too cool not to do • Attracted a huge amount of attention very quickly – NPR & various websites • Gets about 4,000 hits a day and growing • Basically no negative feedback • The lesson: people who use it, love it

  7. The future • Ubiquitous • Personalized • Consolidated • Painless

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