Step #4: RSS

First, I spent a couple of hours cleaning up my Bloglines account that I created last year.  I noticed some blogs aren’t publishing anymore so I deleted those right away.  I feel like Bloglines is just another place that I’ll have to check.  I like getting the RSS feeds to Outlook, but I forget to check that too!  I was pretty consistent checking My Yahoo page too, but I’ve gotten out of that habit, too.

I read on the Shifted Librarian’s blog (author: Jenny Levine) about a library that let young adults dance their fines away.  It was for a Patron Appreciation Day (which is a cute idea), but I thought Maggie or Children’s could have dance-offs to let “kids” pay off their fines.  The children could bring in cans of food too if they didn’t want to dance.  (http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/06/dance-your-fines-away.html)

I do like that you can put all the latest news about things you like into one place but then you have to remember to check it!       To use RSS at the library, maybe a department could sign up for one Bloglines account, add certain relevant blogs to it, and then make it part of the continuing education of the department, something like a del.ici.ous account but bookmarking blogs instead of websites.