1. AALL Annual Meeting, Program K-4Beyond the Blog: RSS, Wikis and Blikis Stay Current In Less Time With RSS Presented by Bonnie Shucha Reference & Electronic Services Librarian University of Wisconsin Law Library bjshucha@wisc.edu

2. How Do You Read Blogs? • Good - As a Web page • Stay current but requires reader to visit multiple sites daily to check for updates • Better! - Via a RSS feed • All updates are delivered • Read multiple feeds in one place

3. RSS • What Is RSS? • Rich Site Summary OR Really Simple Syndication See LawLibTech (Cindy Chick) RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS,http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html

4. RSS News • RSS Coming to Windows • Microsoft recently announced that next Windows upgrade, called Longhorn, will incorporate RSS as core technology

5. RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs • Law-Related • Dockets • Recent opinions • Journal tables of contents • Government agency news See TVC Alert’s RSS News Feeds for Law, http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html

6. RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs • Other • Newspapers • Custom News Alerts (Feedster) • SEC Filings • Product Recalls

7. RSS Feeds Other Than Blogs • Coming Soon? • LexisNexis ECLIPSE • Westclip – Already available with West IntraClip

8. RSS Readers Turns RSS feed… … into something readable

9. RSS Readers • Click on button on blog or web site to get the URL for the feed • Subscribe to the feed with a RSS reader which displays it in readable format • With a RSS reader, multiple feeds are delivered to a single software or Web application

10. RSS Readers • RSS readers are also known as: • RSS aggregators • news readers • news aggregators

11. Free RSS Readers • Web-based • MyYahoo - http://my.yahoo.com/ • Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com • Pluck (Web or IE Plug-in) - http://www.pluck.com/

12. Free RSS Readers • Software • FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ • RSS Bandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/

13. Bloglines • Free Web-based RSS reader • Use to read: • RSS feeds • Email Listservs! • Subscribe at http://www.bloglines.com/ • Requires only an email address & password

14. RSS Feeds

15. Posts

16. Drawbacks of RSS Readers • Can’t easily reply to posts • Posts not saved – unless you save them • Watch privacy policies with free readers • May get ads from some feeds or readers • Predictions that spyware will soon invade RSS

17. RSS • “Anyone who needs to monitor current news on a regular basis will need to understand and use RSS in some form going forward.” Source: LawLibTech RSS Tutorial: What Is RSS, http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000098.html

18. Libraries as RSS Publishers • Blogs with RSS Feeds • 45 blogs associated with a library • 17 blogs by law librarians • 6 law library association or committee blogs For a list, see http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/blogslistpublic.htm

19. Libraries as RSS Publishers • Blogs with RSS Feeds • Legal news & information • Library events and announcements • Course related • Frequently Asked Reference Questions

20. Libraries as RSS Publishers • Other Types of RSS Feeds • TOCs for Law Reviews/Journals • Washington & Lee; Boley Law Library - Lewis & Clark • Judicial Nominations & Confirmations • Lillian Goldman Law Library - Yale Law School • Library Publications • WI Legislative Reference Bureau Library

21. Libraries as RSS Publishers • Other Types of RSS Feeds • Automated feeds delivered from OPAC • Items being held, checked out, etc. • Recent acquisitions For a list, see http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/rsspublic.htm

22. Questions? Contact Bonnie Shucha Reference & Electronic Services Librarian University of Wisconsin Law Library bjshucha@wisc.edu